BIOENERGY (CLOE16)

Assignment I (10 marks)

Answer all the questions
(There should not be any repetition among the assignments)
Submission last date: 12.04.2023
1. Write down the properties of the following Biofuels.
i. Biodiesel
ii. Bioethanol
iii. Biogas
2. What is hazardous waste? And What kind of treatment methods available? What are the
guidelines that followed for the incineration process for the safe disposal of hazardous waste.
3. Tapioca chips manufacturing industry located near Trichy is using 2 gallons of oils to
produce 10 tons of chips per day from 2 tons of tapioca. Overall, in the production unit 20%
of tapioca wastage occurs due to size reduction. After the production of chips, 80% oil is left
as a waste cooking oil. They are planning to valorize the wastes into useful product for their
industry. Give a neat flowchart for the proposed method for valorization of waste into value
added product.

4. (i) In a high rate biogas plant food waste is anaerobically digested to produce biogas. The
slurry contains 8% of solid food grains. The elemental composition of the food grains on dry
basis C: 54%, H:10%, O:28%, N:8% (mass basis). Around 75% of the food grains are
converted to biogas and all the converted hydrogen form methane. If the flow rate of the
slurry is 5500 L/ Day, Calculate the rate of biogas (CO2 +CH4) production.

(ii) In the above plant the effluent from the digester is used for the production of manure
through composting. If 80% of the organic compounds present in the effluent are converted
to manure, what is the rate of manure production?

5. Select any one agro-food industry and find out what kind of conversion method is used for
valorization of waste materials (may include wastewater, and unused raw materials) into
bioenergy. Elaborate with a neat process flowchart (Each one has to take either a research
paper or a case study, there should not be any repetition among the assignments).