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Evaluation of Green Coffee-Roasting Biogas with Modeling Valorization of Possible Solutions

According to the European Union Directive 2009/28/EC, the goals of obtaining 20% of all energy requirements from renewable sources and a 20% reduction in primary energy use must be fulfilled by 2020. In this work, an evaluation was performed, from the environmental and energy point of view, of anaer...

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Autores principales: Campo, Giuseppe, Cerutti, Alberto, Ravina, Marco, Panepinto, Deborah, Riggio, Vincenzo A., Zanetti, Mariachiara
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7579661/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32977541
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17196947
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author Campo, Giuseppe
Cerutti, Alberto
Ravina, Marco
Panepinto, Deborah
Riggio, Vincenzo A.
Zanetti, Mariachiara
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description According to the European Union Directive 2009/28/EC, the goals of obtaining 20% of all energy requirements from renewable sources and a 20% reduction in primary energy use must be fulfilled by 2020. In this work, an evaluation was performed, from the environmental and energy point of view, of anaerobic digestion as a valid solution for the treatment of the byproducts obtained from the coffee-roasting process. In particular, thermophilic anaerobic digestion tests were carried out. Output values from the laboratory were used as input for the MCBioCH(4) model to evaluate the produced flow of biogas and biomethane and two different biogas valorization alternatives, namely, the traditional exploitation of biogas for heat/energy production and biomethane conversion. The results of the preliminary simulation showed that a full-scale implementation of the coffee waste biogas production process is technically feasible and environmentally sustainable. Furthermore, the performed analysis validates a general methodology for energy production compatibility planning.
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spelling pubmed-75796612020-10-29 Evaluation of Green Coffee-Roasting Biogas with Modeling Valorization of Possible Solutions Campo, Giuseppe Cerutti, Alberto Ravina, Marco Panepinto, Deborah Riggio, Vincenzo A. Zanetti, Mariachiara Int J Environ Res Public Health Article According to the European Union Directive 2009/28/EC, the goals of obtaining 20% of all energy requirements from renewable sources and a 20% reduction in primary energy use must be fulfilled by 2020. In this work, an evaluation was performed, from the environmental and energy point of view, of anaerobic digestion as a valid solution for the treatment of the byproducts obtained from the coffee-roasting process. In particular, thermophilic anaerobic digestion tests were carried out. Output values from the laboratory were used as input for the MCBioCH(4) model to evaluate the produced flow of biogas and biomethane and two different biogas valorization alternatives, namely, the traditional exploitation of biogas for heat/energy production and biomethane conversion. The results of the preliminary simulation showed that a full-scale implementation of the coffee waste biogas production process is technically feasible and environmentally sustainable. Furthermore, the performed analysis validates a general methodology for energy production compatibility planning. MDPI 2020-09-23 2020-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7579661/ /pubmed/32977541 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17196947 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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