Hand Book on Biogas and Its Applications

Contents: 1. Biogas plants: a boon for rural family. 2. Engineering design of biogas units for developing countries. 3. Engineering aspects of small-scale biogas plants. 4. An improved plug-flow design for the anaerobic digestion of dairy cattle waste. 5. A village scale biogas pilot plant study using high rate digester technology. 6. Compost-heated small scale farm digester appropriate for Korean conditions. 7. Structural behaviour and stress conditions of fixed dome type of biogas units. 8. Ferrocement gasholder for two 60 M digester. 9. Simplified anaerobic digesters for animal waste. 10. Cold condition biogas. 11. Mechanical and electrical power from biogas in developing countries. 12. Performance of a small diesel engine operating in a dual fuel mode with biogas. 13. Methane production from farm wastes. 14. Optimization of bio-conservation of solid and liquid residues. 15. Novel process of high-efficiency bio-digestion of particulate feeds. 16. Biogas from organic waste diluted with seawater. 17. Fuel gas production from organic wastes by low capital cost batch digestion. 18. Biogas production from water hyacinth (eichhornia crassipes): influence of temperature. 19. The toxicity effect of pesticides and herbicides on the anaerobic digestion process. 20. Biogas production from some organic wastes. 21. The assessment of cellulytic activities in anaerobic digesters by the "textilcoupon technique". 22. Biogas production from antibiotic-contaminated cow manure. 23. Biogas from liquid agro-industrial wastes derived from banana and coffee processing. 24. A simple, rapid and accurate method for determination of carbon-di-oxide in biogas. 25. Assessment of anaerobically digested slurry as a fertilizer and soil conditioner. 26. Repeated application of anaerobically digested slurry and its effect on the yield and NPK uptake of wheat, turnips and onion plants. 27. Biogas manure as a complete fertilizer, feasibility Egyptian farmers. 28. Health risk associated with the use of biogas slurry: an introductory note. 29. Incidence, persistence and control of parasitic eggs and cysts in anaerobically digested wastes. 30. Survival of pathogens and parasites during the anaerobic digestion of organic wastes. 31. Development and application of biogas technology for rural areas of Egypt. 32. Biogas production from kitchen refuses of army camps of Egypt using a two-phase biogas digester. 33. An integrated renewable energy system project overview. 34. Biogas from biomass for a Kenya farm service center. 35. Mectat's experience in the transfer of biogas technology. 36. The experience of the development and research of biogas technology in the rural areas of China. 37. The biogas program in India. 38. Summary of the Nepal biogas program. 39. Biogas technology, development and diffusion the Philippine experience. 40. Biogas technology, research, development and diffusion projects in Sri Lanka. 41. Biogas program of Thailand. 42. Problems concerning biogas production at farm level in Italy. 43. Anaerobic digestion in Portugal.

"Energy from different sources, especially biomass has assumed great importance in development and under developed countries of the world. Most of the energy needed for cooking space heating and lighting etc. in rural area of such countries comes from biomass which have been used since long times.

The book contains technology of biogas generation with its applications. This book will be very useful for researchers, consultants, entrepreneurs, institutional libraries, students etc."