Practical usage of additional heat from biogas plant
Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Department of Production Management and Engineering, Nowoursynowska str. 164, PL 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
*Correspondence: marta_michalik@sggw.pl
Abstract:
Biogas plants are one of the most stable and cost-effective energy sources. The better volume of produced biogas is used for parallel electricity and heat production in CHP gas engines. The heat from the engine is conveniently used for heating the digester but the additional amount causes lot of problems and is wasted despite its large potential. The inefficiency in energy use is a bottleneck in current biogas production, causing macroeconomic and microeconomic losses and challenges in the context of increasing land use competition. As a major output of the biogas management process research provide by authors, this article was elaborated in order to introduce the results of theoretical heating system analysis.