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Different Ways of extracting energy<br />

Anaerobic Digestion<br />

from biomass -7<br />

Anaerobic Digestion is a biochemical degradation process that<br />

converts complex organic material, such as animal manure, into<br />

methane and other byproducts.<br />

What is Anaerobic Digester?<br />

Anaerobic digester (commonly referred to as an AD) is a device<br />

that promotes the decomposition of manure or “digestion” of<br />

the organics in manure to simple organics and gaseous biogas<br />

products.<br />

Biogas is formed by the activity of anaerobic bacteria.<br />

Microbial growth and biogas production are very slow at<br />

ambient temperatures.

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