Effect of Chemical Pre-treatment and Co-digestion on Biogas Yield from Animal Manures for Energy Production in Nigeria
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In recent times, biogas is fast becoming one of the most important fuels for electricity and heat energy production. In this work, three different animal manures from cow dung, goat excreta and chicken droppings were used for biogas production in different experiments based on raw feedstock and chemical pre-treatment, furthermore, an additional investigation of the biogas production potential was carried out based on co-digestion of the mixture of the same amount of the three feedstock manures in raw and pre-treated form. The result of the biogas generated indicated that the chicken manure produced the highest quantity of biogas in all three categories of experiments performed. Overall, the largest quantity of biogas was generated by the chicken manure in all three different categories of the experiments. For instance, in the first category, 0.528 m3, 0.484 m3 and 0.364 m3 were produced respectively for raw chicken manure, raw goat manure and raw cow dung manure. For the chemically pre-treated experimental sample feedstock used in the second category, 0.601 m3 was produced by the chicken manure showing a better result while the third category of the co-digestion revealed 0.697 m3 and 0.743 m3 in 20 days of the experimental period respectively for the mixed of the three raw manures and mixture of the three pre-treated manures. The gas chromatography experiment conducted in all the categories also revealed that the highest methane yield was obtained from the mixture of the three pre-treated manures such that the methane (73.24%), ammonia (0.74%), carbon (II) oxide (1.23%), hydrogen sulphie (0.82%) and carbon (IV) oxide (23.97%). Thus, the results obtained showed that the chemically pre-treated co-digestion biomass feedstock performs better than others concerning the quantity of biogas and methane production.
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Adinoyi Omohu Elizabeth, Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa, Nasarawa State, Nigeria.
Department of Applied Chemistry/Biochemistry
Abdulhanan Bello, Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa, Nasarawa State, Nigeria.
Department of Applied Chemistry/Biochemistry
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