Biogas to Biomethane: Engineering, Production, Sustainability addresses the technical, social and economic aspects of biogas upgradation to biomethane. With a focus on the latest advances, the book examines the challenges of biomethane production from technology to safety. Sections discuss the fundamentals of biomethane production, examine the latest technologies for biogas upgradation, provide step-by-step guidance on how to calculate and model mass, energy and emission flows from different process and technological configurations, address alternative and combined approaches to biogas upgradation, such as with mesophilic and thermophilic bacteria, consider the socio-economic implications of the biogas to biomethane production chain, and more.
Additional sections discuss biosafety in relation to the technologies and processes discussed throughout the book and assess the sustainability of biomethane through lifecycle assessments and techno-economic and policy perspectives. This is an invaluable reference for researchers and industry engineers interested in biogas upgradation and the production of biomethane, and will be of interest to multidisciplinary teams working across Renewable Energy, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Science, and Sustainability Science.
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Table of Contents
DedicationAcknowledgments
Preface
Section 1: Basic understanding
1. Introduction to biogas and biomethane
2. Recent Advances of Biogas Production
Section 2: Technical aspects
3. Absorption Technology for upgrading biogas to biomethane
4. Adsorption Technology for upgrading biogas to biomethane
5. Recent advances on photosynthetic Biogas Upgrading to Biomethane
Section 3: Computational and modelling
6. Modelling for upgrading biogas to biomethane
Section 4: Combinations and alternatives aspects
7. Biomethanation at psychrophilic temperatures
8. Microbial co-culture to enhance biogas production
9. From Emissions to Opportunities: Harnessing Bio CO2 for Sustainable Industry Applications
Section 5: Socio-Economical aspects
10. Waste to biomethane: advent of circular economy
Section 6: Sustainability and globalization
11. Life Cycle Assessment of Biomethane technology
12. Techno-economic study of biogas to biomethane
13. Policy designs for biomethane promotion
Authors
Abu Yousuf Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh.Dr. Abu Yousuf is a Research Associate in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, in the United States. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. His primary research interests include renewable energy, biorefinery, energy storage and waste-to-energy, and he is currently working with protonic ceramic fuel cells at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Yousuf has published over 60 papers in reputed ISI and Scopus-indexed journals, 19 conference papers and 15 book chapters, and is the Editor of 5 books, as well as serving as an editorial board member for several reputed journals. He received the Dean's Award from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh, in 2019 and 2021, for his research, and won the 'International invention of the year award' at the British Invention Show, London, UK in 2017, for his work on Hybrid Energy Generation for Highway Lighting Systems.
Lynsey Melville Professor of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Computing Engineering and Built Environment, Birmingham City University, UK. Dr Lynsey Melville is Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Faculty of Computing Engineering and Built Environment, Birmingham City University, UK. She leads the Bioresource and Bioeconomy research group whose focus is on accelerating the adoption of environmentally sustainable and commercially viable energy from biomass.Since joining BCU she has been PI or CO-I on 11 peer reviewed funded projects with a total project value of >�20M. This funding has come from UK research councils (including Global Challenges Research Funding), EU programmes, British Council as well as commercial consultancy. Working with over 40 academic partners and more than 30 industry partners across 7 countries, her most recent projects have included working with rural communities in Bangaldesh, South Africa and Indonesia.
With expertise spanning various areas of environmental engineering (from water and wastewater treatment, organic waste management and bioenergy production) she has provided expert support to both industry and academia and her work has sought to bridge the gap between the two.
