Biogas in the Circular Economy

Technology, Production and Applications
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-443-29230-9
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Biogas in the Circular Economy: Technology, Production and Applications explains biogas technology in the context of a circular economy, allowing for zero waste by valorizing digestate (residue) in a sustainable way. The book begins by discussing anaerobic digestion for biomethane production, including feedstocks, pre-treatments, innovative technologies and the use of artificial intelligence in anaerobic digestion. Subsequent chapters present the latest technologies in biogas separation, purification, and in-situ upgrading, and valorization of digestates in a circular economy context, namely as biofertilizers and energy recovery by thermochemical conversions. Carbon neutrality and challenges in biogas are discussed, with the support of case studies. Three chapters then provides in-depth coverage of biomethane and biohydrogen in the context of transport, power production, and the water-energy-food nexus. Finally, the last chapter is devoted to the life cycle assessment and cost-benefit analysis of biogas and biohydrogen production. This new volume in the Woodhead Series in Bioenergy enables the reader to understand how biogas technology can be utilized to reach circular economy objectives, and will be valuable to all those with an interest in biogas technology, bioenergy, and bioeconomy, including researchers, advanced students, faculty, engineers, scientists, R&D, industry practitioners, and policy makers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

El Bari, Hassan

Barakat, Abdellatif

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Energietechnik & Elektrotechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Alternative und erneuerbare Energien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Suitable feedstocks, advanced combining pre-treatment for optimized biomethane and biohydrogen production
2. Innovative biogas digester technology
3. Artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms for modeling and optimizing biogas production
4. Applications and future of in-situ biogas purification and upgrading technologies
5. Carbon neutrality and challenges in biogas economy: Bioeconomy case studies
6. Valorization of digestate as a biofertilizer and its energy recovery using thermochemical conversion
7. Biomethane and as an innovative solution for decarbonized transport
8. Biomethane in the water-energy-food nexus context
9. Biohydrogen production for power and transport
10. Life cycle assessment and cost-benefit analysis of biogas and biohydrogen production

Über Autor(innen)

El Bari, Hassan
Dr. Hassan El Bari has been a Professor at Ibn Tofail University in Morocco since 1988. He obtained his PhD in Materials Science from INPL (France) in 1987 and also has a "Doctorat d'Etat" in Mechanical Engineering from the University Mohamed V in Morocco, received in 1998. He is the president of the Moroccan Association of Solid Waste. He was Master Degree Coordinator: Waste Management and Recovery (2010-2014) and Member of the International Solid Waste Association (2004-2014). He has been involved in many funded projects as a coordinator and partner, and has significant experience in teaching solid waste management, biomass and bioenergy, and anaerobic digestion technology. Prof. El Bari is an associate editor of the Cleaner Waste Systems Journal (Elsevier) and guest lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He has authored or co-authored several book chapters and edited or co-edited 3 books.

Barakat, Abdellatif
Abdellatif Barakat is a Director Researcher in Green Chemistry and Valorization of Biomass at INRAE, JRU of Agropolymer Engineering and Emerging Technologies (IATE), Montpellier, France, which focuses on dry fractionation and bioconversion of agro-resources and waste, biofuels, anaerobic digestion, digestate valorization, pyrolysis, biofertilizers and molecules of interest. His current research interests include valorization of biomass for bioenergy production, pretreatments, extraction of biopolymers, and biofertilizers formulation. He received his PhD in Chemistry and Physicochemical of Biopolymers from Reims University in 2007, and has previously held several postdoc positions, including at the Laboratory of Biotechnologies of the Environment (LBE, INRA) and at the Institut Charles Gerhardt (MACS, CNRS). Dr. Barakat has published over 120 papers in international journals, 4 patents, and 6 book chapters.