Process Monitoring of Biogas Projects

Biogas digesters show high potential in the avenue of waste management and renewable energy production. However, the process can only turn out optimum biogas if it is rightfully biologically intrinsic to the digesters. This paper debates the role of process monitoring parameters in optimizing the biogas digester performance. It puts much emphasis on frequent process failures such as an organic overload, hydraulic overload, and ammonia inhibition. This paper calls for a process monitoring strategy that interprets and understands the biological activity going on in the digester. In this way, after measuring some key parameters, the operator will be able to tell instabilities in advance before this wholly results in a crash, hence saving many financial losses related to the restarting of a destabilized system. The paper presents the process monitoring benefits regarding delivery in the context of comprehensive understanding of the biogas process, giving early warnings of instability, successful digester start up and re start, and lastly, avoiding the costs of shutdowns and restarts. The economic gains that process monitoring offers with its slightest implementation against the costly shutdown and restart of digesters are huge. It is very informative to operators and biogas researchers because proactive action can be made on improving digester performance for maximum biogas production, which will be possible through the efficient use of process monitoring parameters. Srinivas Kasulla | S J Malik | Ashish Dutta Bhatta | Gaurav Kathpal | Anjani Yadav "Process Monitoring of Biogas Projects" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-8 | Issue-3 , June 2024, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd67081.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/other-scientific-research-area/enviormental-science/67081/process-monitoring-of-biogas-projects/srinivas-kasulla