[Digestion] Rapid estimation of the biochemical methane potential of plant biomasses (...)

[Jayant Keskar]

Thanks for sharing Jerome,

cheers,

jayant

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 6:13 AM, Jerome Rigot <jfrigot at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some of you may find this paper interesting.
>
> Enjoy, Jerome
>
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> Rapid estimation of the biochemical methane potential of plant biomasses
> using Fourier transform mid-infrared photoacoustic spectroscopy
> *ARTICLE* in BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 197:475-481 · SEPTEMBER 2015
> Impact Factor: 4.49 · DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.08.050
> Abstract
> Biochemical methane potential (BMP) is a very important characteristic of
> a given feedstock for optimisation of its use in biogas production.
> However, the long digestion time needed to determine BMP is the main
> limitation for the use of this assay during the operation of anaerobic
> digesters to produce biogas. Fourier transform mid-infrared photoacoustic
> spectroscopy (FTIR-PAS) was used to predict the BMP of 87 plant biomasses.
> The developed calibration model was able to explain 81% of the variance in
> the measured BMP of a selected test set with a root mean square error
> (RMSE) of 40NLCH4kg(-1) of volatile solids (VS) and a ratio of performance
> to deviation (RPD) of 2.38. The interpretation of the regression
> coefficients used in the calibration revealed a positive correlation of BMP
> with easily degradable compounds (amorphous cellulose, hemicellulose and
> aliphatic compounds) and a negative correlation with inhibitors of
> cellulose hydrolysis (lignin, hemicellulose).
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