Beta
228475

Improving Biogas Production from Rice Husk Waste by Mixing with Pomegranate peels Waste by using Anaerobic Digestion

Article

Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

Organic chemistry

Abstract

Biogas is one of the most important sources of renewable energy and is considered as an environment friendly energy source. The major goal of this research is to see if rice husk (Rh) waste and pomegranate peels (PP) waste are suitable for anaerobic digestion and what effect NaOH pre-treatment has on biogas generation. Rice husk and pomegranate peels were tested in anaerobic digestion under patch anaerobic conditions as separate wastes as well as blended together in equal proportions. The cumulative biogas output for the blank test (no pretreatment) was 1923 and 2526 ml, respectively using a single rice husk (Rh) and pomegranate peel (PP) substrates. The 50% rice husk digestion and 50% of pomegranate peels for blank test gave the result 2246 ml of accumulative biogas during 15 days of digestion. These findings show that Rh degradation is less appropriate for the digestion of a single substrate. Because of Rh's high lignin material. The digestion of the rice-husk-peel blend enhanced the digestibility of the rice husk and thus increased the yield of biogas. 3% NaOH chemical pretreatment are investigated in addition to blank test in order to find the effect of pretreatment on rice husk and pomegranate peels for biogas production. The pretreatment increases the accumulative biogas for Rh, PP and mixture of 50% Rh with 50% PP from 1923, 2526 and 2246 ml to 2007, 2560 and 2309 ml respectively.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2022.99280.4618

Keywords

Biogas, rice husk, pomegranate peels, anaerobic digestion

Authors

First Name

Ruaa O.

Last Name

Taha

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq.

Email

ruaa.taha.100@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Sameera Majid

Last Name

Minti

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq.

Email

searcher_1426@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Farah Ali

Last Name

Mohammad

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq.

Email

iris.farah@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

65

Article Issue

13

Related Issue

37459

Issue Date

2022-12-01

Receive Date

2021-10-03

Publish Date

2022-12-01

Page Start

127

Page End

131

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

Link

https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_228475.html

Detail API

https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=228475

Order

228,475

Type

Original Article

Type Code

297

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

Publication Link

https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Improving Biogas Production from Rice Husk Waste by Mixing with Pomegranate peels Waste by using Anaerobic Digestion

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023