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Faculty of Engineering. 3 Year Mechanical Power Eng. Dept.
Mech. Power Eng. Dept. Sheet No. (3): Biofuels

1. Corn stover is harvested with around 75% moisture. Determine the amount
of moisture to be removed per 1000 kg of raw corn stover if the ideal safe
storage moisture contents is 90%.

2. Determine the amount of waste that can be generated from 500 ha (1235
acres) of corn stover each year. Compare this with that from rice production
on similar land. Use data in table 1.

Table 1 An Estimated production of agricultural Residue from crop yield

3. Determine the number of hectares required to establish a 3.785 million liters

per year of ethanol based from sugarcane with a yield of 8000 (L/ha/yr).
Compare this with that from sorghum cane ethanol production with yield of
4674 (L/ha/yr).

4- Determine how much power output of a biomass power plant (operated 333
days a year and 24 hr a day) if the heating value of the biomass (dry) is 20
MJ/kg. The biomass yield in tonnes (dry) per hectare per year is 12. The total
planted area is 20,000 hectares. Assume conversion efficiency of 30%.

5- For a biogas digester working at 60 days hydraulic retention time with slurry
composed of 100 kg animal manure and 100 kg of grass and 200 kg of water,
what would be the minimum size of the digester and the gas holder? Assume
the density of the combined mixture slurry is 1.2 kg/L. design the gas holder
to accommodate 3 days of biogas output. If the biogas yield is 25 L / kg slurry.

6- If 500 head of dairy cows producing 26,500 kg of wet manure each day.
Determine the amount of biogas produced each day if the volatile solids are
10%. If the biogas yield is 1 L of biogas per gram of volatile solids.
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