Defining the biomethane potential (BMP) of solid organic wastes and energy crops: a proposed protocol for batch assays.

TLDR: In this article, the authors present some guidelines for biomethane potential assays prepared by the Task Group for the Anaerobic Biodegradation, Activity and Inhibition Assays of the International Water Association.

About: This article is published in Water Science and Technology.The article was published on 2009-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1606 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biogas & Anaerobic digestion.

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Figure 1 | Suggested assay vessel for anaerobic biodegradability test.

Table 1 | Suggested model substrates for determination of activities of different trophic groups in a biogas reactor

Figure 2 | Methane production curves for triplicate samples of solid organic substrate (household), cellulose and inoculum (control). From Hansen et al. 2004.

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This paper presents some guidelines for biomethane potential assays prepared by the Task Group for the Anaerobic Biodegradation, Activity and Inhibition Assays of the Anaerobic Digestion Specialist Group of the International Water Association. 

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This paper presented some guidelines and advices to researchers involved in such experiments to try to unify the use of units and techniques in future studies.