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Biogas production from coal via anaerobic fermentation

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Title Biogas production from coal via anaerobic fermentation
 
Creator Gupta, Asha
Gupta, Priyanka
 
Subject Envieronmental Management Group
 
Description In India coal is the major source of energy and only 60–70% is extracted using different mining methods, left over coal remains as waste in abandoned coal mines. This left over coal can be recovered in the form of gas by anaerobic fermentation. Consortia of microbes isolated from different natural sources i.e. cow dung, paddy field soil, termites and mine waters, were tried in this study. The best consortium culture isolated from Jitpur mine water was used for optimisation of parameters. The optimum solid liquid ratio, pH, particle size and temperature were 1:10, 7.0–7.5, _60 + 25 lm, 35 _C respectively for maximum methane production. At optimum conditions maximum methane produced was 479.3 cc/100 g with high percentage (92.6%) in biogas.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2014-02
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://cimfr.csircentral.net/1480/1/fuel_118.pdf
Gupta, Asha and Gupta, Priyanka (2014) Biogas production from coal via anaerobic fermentation. Fuel, 118. pp. 238-242. ISSN 0016-2361
 
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