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Biogas Digester Design Calculations

The document outlines the design and calculations for biogas digesters using cow dung, focusing on assumptions, numerical examples, and required inputs for cooking and lighting needs. It includes calculations for the volume of digesters needed based on gas requirements for a family and the output from cows. Additionally, it provides a second numerical example for calculating the volume of a fixed dome biogas digester and the thermal power available from biogas.

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Biogas Digester Design Calculations

The document outlines the design and calculations for biogas digesters using cow dung, focusing on assumptions, numerical examples, and required inputs for cooking and lighting needs. It includes calculations for the volume of digesters needed based on gas requirements for a family and the output from cows. Additionally, it provides a second numerical example for calculating the volume of a fixed dome biogas digester and the thermal power available from biogas.

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Module -4

Biogas digester design –


Anaerobic digester

22-March-2019
Assumptions in anaerobic
digester design
• Only 70% of cow dung produce can be collected from site
• Equal amount of dung and water mixture need to be fed to
digester
• Density of slurry = 1090 kg/m3
• 90% of the slurry is occupied by digester
• Gas for cooking purpose/person/day=0.227 m3
• Gas for 100 CP lamp lighting purpose =0.126 m3/day
• Solid content in cow dung = 18%
• For producing 1kg of biogas-25 kg of cow dung is required
Numerical -1
• Calculate the volume of a cow-dung based biogas plant
required for cooking needs of a family of five adults and
lighting needs with two 100 CP lamps for three hours daily.
Also, calculate the required number of cows to feed the
plant. Assume standard values of data wherever required.
• Gas required for cooking for the family =5x0.227=1.135
m3/day
• Gas required for lighting=0.127x2x3=0.762 m3/day
• Total gas requirement of the family = 1.891 m3/day
• Assume the number of cows required to produce the amount
of biogas be ‘n’
• Cow dung produced =10xn kg/day
• Amount of cow dung collected (70%) = 7Xn kg/day
• Weight of dry solid mass (18%) in cow dung = 0.18x7xn kg/day
Numerical -1
• Gas produced per day = 0.34x 0.18x7xn m3/day
• Therefore, n~5
• Daily feeding of cow dung = 7x5 = 35 kg The solid
mass will be mixed with equal quantity of water to
make the slurry
• Hence, daily slurry feed into the digester = 70 kg
• Volume of slurry = 70/1090 = 0.0642 m3
• For 50 day retention period, total volume of slurry
in digester = 3.21 m3
• 90% of digester volume is occupied by slurry, hence
total volume of digester = 3.21/0.9 = 3.56 m3
Numerical-2
• Calculate the volume of fixed dome biogas digester
for the output of two cows. Also, calculate the
thermal power available from biogas. Use the
following data:
• Retention time = 40 days
• Dry matter produced = 2 kg/day/cow
• Biogas yield = 0.22 m3/kg/dry matter
• Percentage of dry matter in cow dung =18%
• Burner efficiency = 60%
• Heating value of biogas = 23 MJ/m3
Numerical-2
• Dung collected from two cows = 4 kg/day
• Quantity of solid content in cow dung produce = 4.0
kg/day
• Equal quantity of water need to be added to dry
matter, hence total slurry mass = 8.0 kg/ day
• Slurry volume produced per day = 0.0073 m3/day
• If retention time is 40 days, total volume of slurry =
0.293 m3
• Assuming 10% volume is occupied by gas, total volume
of digester required = 0.325 m3
• Gas produced = 4x0.22 kg/day = 0.88 m3/day
• Thermal energy available = 0.88x23x0.6= ____ MJ/day
• Continuous thermal energy available = ____ MW

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