G.

Srinivasa rao
Bio mass : organic matter produced by plants

Resources
 Energy crops
 Natural vegetables
 Organic waste and residue(forest residue,
Agricultural residue, municipal solid waste,
industry waste, sewage liquid waste)
 Solidfuels
Example: Wood, char coal
 Liquid fuels
Example: methanol, ethanol, bio diesel
 Gas fuels
Example: biogas, Methane, Hydrogen
 Direct combustion
Cooking ,space heating, industry process,
electric power generation
 Bio thermal conversion
pyrolysis and gasification
 Bio chemical conversion
Anaerobic digestion ,fermentation
 Continuous type

 Batch type

 Floating drum plant

 Fixed dome plant

 Continuous type  Batch type

 Produce gas  Production of gas is

continuously intermittent and
 Requires small digestion depends upon
chambers cleaning of digester
 Takes less time to  Needs several
complete digestion chambers
process
 More expensive and
 Easy operation and less
operating problems more operating
problems
 Floating drum Fixed dome
 Two parts - Digester
and separate gas  No separate gas
holder holder
 Constant pressure  Variable pressure

 Slurry –mixing of 4:5  Slurry –mixing of 4:5

volume of dung and volume of dung and
water water
 High cost  Low cost
 Also called as KVIC  Also called as Chines
plant plant