Optimising Biogas Plants

<p>Keeping theory to a minimum without sacrificing scientific rigour, this comprehensive guide offers readers a practical approach to boosting the profitability of their biogas plants. The techniques explained allow for an assessment of a biogas plant throughout its entire life cycle, from critical review of the business plan to the selection of retrofits to recover additional income from the process byproducts.</p><p>• Details how to apply the scientific method to the review of biogas projects, considering technical flaws induced by marketing and human factors like cognitive bias.</p><p>• Explains a method for the quick startup of digesters</p><p>• Proposes a thermodynamic approach to the selection of biogas upgrading solutions, making the choice independent of marketing claims or biased information.</p><p>• Provides a summary of possible marginal incomes from biogenic CO2, residual heat, and digestate.</p><p>• Includes the latest technological developments in laboratory measurement instruments and techniques beyond the mere BMP test.</p><p>• Includes a guideline to perform a technical due diligence, with examples of the most frequent errors in biogas plant business plans.</p><p>Building upon the laboratory test techniques published in the author’s complementary book, <i>Managing Biogas Plants,</i> this text helps readers who are investing in or managing existing industrial biomass plants to optimize processes and profit.</p>