Effect of chemical and biological additives on production of biogas from coffee pulp silage

Abstract

AbstractEnergy is the foundation of the global economy and is essential to human survival. Nevertheless, more than 60% of it comes from fossil fuels. That is not a replenished and scarce source. However, a sizable amount of organic waste is generated every minute throughout the world and can be used as a raw material to produce renewable energy. Among them, Coffee processing generates a huge amount of solid and liquid waste that is organic and can serve as raw material for biofuel production. Since coffee beans and powder are Ethiopia’s main exports, coffee pulp is easily accessible. Therefore, the main goal of this project is to convert this waste, which largely consists of organic materials, into a valuable product called Methane. The purity and yield of methane productivity are significantly influenced by the type of additives we use. This work systematically investigates the effect of chemical and biological additives on the productivity and purity of the Biogas from the coffee pulp silage in batch systems under mesophilic temperature (38 °C) for different ensiling periods and additive proportions. The chemical additives recorded the maximum biogas production (2980 ml) at an ensiling period of 40 days with high purity of about 70% biogas. The minimum Biogas was recorded at the ensiling period of 10 days by the control (T1) treatments, which was 634 ml. This work proves that biological additives produced the highest quality and quantity of Biogas from coffee silage.