Thank You

Mr. Himour Yassine

Can you suggest regarding paper on this particular work.

The AD4RD model developed by Salter and Banks (2008) is a spreadsheet based tool, which calculates energy balances using a crop based AD system (http://www.ad4rd.soton.ac.uk). The AD4RD model produces energy inputs and biogas outputs for a range of terrestrial agriculture products and wastes.

I developed also developed a spreadsheet model while researching the energy balance of  algal biofuels (Milledge, 2013; Milledge & Heaven, 2014a; Milledge & Heaven, 2014b) and  Hoa Huu Nguyen, Sonia Heaven and Charles Banks at the University of Southampton have developed an AD model in Aspen plus (Nguyen et al., 2014).

Milledge, J.J. 2013. Micro-algal biorefineries. in: Towards Establishing Value Chains for Bioenergy, The African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) Science and Technology Programme. Swakopmund, Namibia.

Milledge, J.J., Heaven, S. 2014a. Energy balance of algal biogas production. in: The British Phycological Society  Annual Meeting. Galway.

Milledge, J.J., Heaven, S. 2014b. Methods of energy extraction from microalgal biomass: a review. Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology, 13(3), 301-320.

Nguyen, H., Heaven, S., Banks, C. 2014. Energy potential from the anaerobic digestion of food waste in municipal solid waste stream of urban areas in Vietnam. International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering, 5(4), 365-374.

Salter, A., Banks, C. 2008. Anaerobic Digestion: Overall Energy Balances – Parasitic Inputs & Beneficial Outputs. in: Sustainable Organic Resources Partnership - Advances in Biological Processes for Organics and Energy recycling. Birmingham.

Thank You Sir (John Milledge )

Your work really very worthful to me.

But another doubt is why biogas is not used for generating electricity.

Biogas is used in Combined Heat and Power units, but the key is having a use for the heat

Have a look at SIMBA#biogas, a dynamic simulation platform for agricultural or other solid waste anaerobic digestion systems. http://www.inctrl.ca/software/simba/simbabiogas/ . You can download a demo version.

Thank you so much Praful for asking this question and thanks to everyone that answered this question.

The problem with SIMBA Biogas from what I can tell though; is that you cannot save whatever you do with the DEMO version

Hello, I look for an easy free biomass energy software. Will you advice me. Thanks

BioGC simulation software

http://www.biogasworld.com/biogas-calculations/