Start up of anaerobic digestion of tomato processing wastes for methane generation.

Sarada, R. and Krishna, Nand. (1989) Start up of anaerobic digestion of tomato processing wastes for methane generation. Biological Wastes, 30. p. 231.

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Abstract

A good start-up of digestion of tomato-processing waste (TP W) was achieved by the stepwise addition of feedstock over 10-12 weeks of digestion. The stepped increases of TP W in the digester resulted in a steady-state gas yield of 0.597m3/kg VS added with a 72% methane content. Volumetric production of gas and methane remained high after the eighth week of digestion throughout the investigation. The volatile fatty acids concentration in this system was similar to a cowdung-fed digester and never exceeded more than 150mg/litre throughout the period

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	tomato-processing waste, biomethanation, agro-industrial wastes, anaerobic digestion
Subjects:	600 Technology > 08 Food technology > 23 Vegetables > 03 Tomato 500 Natural Sciences and Mathematics > 07 Life Sciences > 03 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology > 04 Biosynthesis
Divisions:	Food Microbiology
Depositing User:	Food Sci. & Technol. Information Services
Date Deposited:	04 Mar 2011 11:48
Last Modified:	07 May 2012 05:20
URI:	http://ir.cftri.res.in/id/eprint/5487

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