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Anup KC, Pratisthit Lal Shrestha

Supervisor: Hari Prasad Neopane, Ph.D
Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Kathmandu University, Nepal

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Introduction CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

Biogas typically refers to a mixture of different gases produced by the
breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen. Biogas can be
produced from raw materials such as agricultural waste, manure,
municipal waste, sewage, green waste or food waste. Urban Household
Biogas Plant is an effective technological concept in Nepal. We use
Household and agricultural waste as a feeding material. In this project the
proposed concept is to replace the traditional waste management
technology and with a view of working in the implement of a design of
Urban Household Biogas Plant which converts the Household wastes
into Bio-energy and can be used for several purposes
Methodology
Literature Review on Anaerobic Digestion, its Principles, Factors
affecting it.
Dimensional Calculation for Design Process
Market Survey and effective material Selection
Structural Design
Fabrication and assembly of parts
Analysis and Lab test of Biogas.
Description
The biogas plant consists of a bio digester tank where the major work of
decomposition of waste and production of gas occurs. Different anaerobic
bacteria present in the biogas digester gradually decompose the solid
waste into Methane (CH4), Carbon dioxide (CO2) and Hydrogen Sulphide
(H2S) gas which gets collected in the digester tank above the
decomposing waste product.
An inlet pipe is used to load waste product into the biogas digester. A
valve fitted at the top of the tank is used in collection and distribution of
biogas. The byproduct after the process of decomposition is disposed out
of the tank through an outlet pipe. To minimize the effect of lower
With the aim to produce maximum amount of biogas using
various specific Insulation, this project is approached in
mesophilic anaerobic digestion. From the yearlong
literature review, experimentation and data analysis of the
project the gas it can be concluded that there are many
different parameters that we should keep in mind before
fabricating the biogas plant. Due to the winter startup the
temperature of the biogas plant cannot be maintained
within mesophilic range and as a result the gas cannot be
produced. Temperature inside the digester can be
maintained with the addition of required thickness of
insulation outside the plant and be heating the input slurry.
From the project it can be recommended that biogas
production is hampered by winter startup without required
Figure 1.1 Simple Drawing of a household biogas plant. thickness of insulation. So summer start up must for biogas
production.
Results
The project started after the fabrication, assembly and installation of biogas
digester with inlet outlet and the gas distribution pipe. Initially 200 l of cow
dung was fed into the digester at the winter season. In the beginning gas
production was detected because of the decomposition of cow dung. The
biogas plant was than fed with 18l household food waste in mixture with water
in 1:1 ratio. Due to winter startup, the temperature inside the biogas plant
could not be maintained within mesophilic range. Because of this acidification
occurred inside the biogas plant which hampered the growth of microbes and
as a result no gas production was detected. The graph below shows the daily
temperature change which explains the low temperature in startup period.
Daily temperature change graph (starting from 2016/12/01)

temperature in the generation of gas, the biogas digester is provided with

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Department of Mechanical Engineering | 2015