The Feasibility of Family Biogas Production from Mixed

The Feasibility of Family Biogas Production from Mixed PDF

Medyan Adel Mustaffa Hassan

Supervisor(s)

Prof. Marwan Haddad -

Discussion Commity

1- Prof. Marwan Haddad (supervisor) 2- Dr. Anan Jaiwsi (Internal Examiner) 3-Dr. Amal El-Hudhud (External Examiner)

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Abstract :

Abstract Biogas technology is a technology that applied to produce biogas (energy source) and organic fertilizer by anaerobic digestion for organic materials, especially organic wastes that should be disposed off to give more socio-economic and environmental positive impacts. The success of biogas plants (projects) at an area depends on: - availability of organic materials, cost of constructing, founded energy sources and its costs, experience, knowledge, ambient climate conditions especially temperature, and acceptability for people constructing these plants. The research concerned with studying the feasibility of family biogas production from mixed organic wastes in Palestinian rural areas by field survey and experiment. The field survey data support the opinion about the importance of constructing family biogas plants in Palestinian rural areas where the average of rural family members’ number is (6.85) with high average monthly energy cost (45.97 JD) per family or (6.711JD) per capita. The field survey data also indicate the availability of organic wastes for rural families, since most of these families raise animals (72.47%), and of cultivation activities (87.45%), besides their generated domestic wastes. Moreover; these families follow useless or negative methods for disposing off their: - animals’ dung {collected to be disposed off later, 71.20%}, domestic solid wastes {disposed off in general containers, 75.80%} and waste water {drained off to the cess pits, 89.00%}, in contrast; these families fed their plants and crops residues to animals (70.80%) which is a positive disposing method. Field survey data reveal Palestinian rural people suffer from negative impacts of organic wastes {reply average percentage, 60.30%}. They have also a positive awareness toward wastes impacts and issues {average percentage, 65.2%}. Attitudes could enhance their acceptance {average percentage, 65.8%} for constructing biogas plants, especially if they provided with financial assistance and necessary knowledge about biogas technol

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