DESIGN OF ANAEROBIC DIGESTION TANK: A SUSTAINABLE APPROACH TO SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

This study is mainly started with the object to provide sustainable solid waste management to Maddipadu, a town in Prakasam district of Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Anaerobic digester or anaerobic digestion tank is used to produce bio gas from anaerobic digestion of organic wastes. This technique advantageous in two ways: one is biogas can be used as alternate to fossil fuels and another one is it will be strategy of municipal solid waste management. However, anaerobic digestion is the best practice among available waste-to-energy technologies. This paper mainly decided to design an anaerobic digester for Maddipadu, as a practice of solid waste management. Maddipadu is growing locality in recent years, and it does not contain proper waste management system of municipal solid waste for safe disposal .After conducting a case study on present solid waste management scenario, we found the need of establishment of recycling of solid waste here. But, therefore, we decided to recover energy from the waste, which would be best practice of MSWM.