dc.contributor.author | Nakikoola, Berna | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-23T09:15:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-11-23T09:15:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Nakikoola, B. (2023). Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Faecal Sludge and Banana Peels [unpublished undergraduate thesis]. Makerere University, Kampala | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12281/17252 | |
dc.description | Thesis submitted to the Department of Agricultural and Bio-Systems Engineering in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agricultural Engineering of Makerere University | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The abundance of agricultural wastes produced from banana peels and human waste from households has resulted in the difficulties of disposing of large amounts of waste. Anaerobic digestion is a way to reduce waste and generate renewable energy sources including biogas. In this study, banana peels were co-digested with faecal sludge in batch experiments under ambient temperature at 25±5°C at a working volume of 18 liters in 20 liters reactors. The effects of different substrate mix ratios on methane yields were investigated. The batch study was conducted at 8% VS at three different substrate ratio faecal sludge to banana peels (FS: BP) (1:1, 1:2 and 1:3) and a control (1:0). Overall biogas collection at 1:3 ratio of FS:BP resulted into the highest biogas production of 26 liters, followed by 1:3 ratio (C2) with 930 ml biogas yield. The highest methane yield was achieved with reactor C2 of 1:3 ratio (15.21 CH4/g VS). In conclusion, the production of methane from pineapple wastes co-digested with cow dung was proven to be a good strategy to minimize solid wastes mainly pineapple waste. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Makerere University | en_US |
dc.subject | Anaerobic Co-Digestion | en_US |
dc.subject | Faecal Sludge | en_US |
dc.subject | Banana Peels | en_US |
dc.subject | Banana waste | en_US |
dc.title | Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Faecal Sludge and Banana Peels. | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |