Estimation of Sustainable Bioenergy Production from Olive Mill Solid Waste

The disposal of olive wastes and their wastewater is a major problem worldwide. An important recycling chain can be formed through biogas production and energy conversion from olive waste. This study developed an efficient and effective sustainable model for biogas production using anaerobic digesti...

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Autores principales: Md. Alhaz Uddin, Sk. Yasir Arafat Siddiki, Shams Forruque Ahmed, Zahidul Islam Rony, M. A. K. Chowdhury, M. Mofijur
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/1b8aacfac58f4951a7183b87dfab7b0a
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Sumario:The disposal of olive wastes and their wastewater is a major problem worldwide. An important recycling chain can be formed through biogas production and energy conversion from olive waste. This study developed an efficient and effective sustainable model for biogas production using anaerobic digestion conditions with the co-digestion of pretreated olive waste. The sample used was hard olive pomace, which was dried in an oven before being crushed to fine particles with a mortar and pestle. The sample was analyzed by a CE-440 Elemental Analyzer, and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer (FTIR) analysis was performed using Shimadzu IRTracer-100. Through the analysis, a substantial amount of electrical energy of 769 kWh/t was found to be generated per ton of olive pomace due to the high volatile solid (VS) percentage of organic waste material incorporated during the calculation. Reduced land area for landfilling olive waste was calculated to be 108 m<sup>2</sup> per year, whereas the potential to reduce landfill leachate production was evaluated to be 0.32 m<sup>3</sup> per year.