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biogas Definition

bio·gas (ō gas′)

noun

a fuel gas produced by fermenting organic waste, as in capturing methane from manure

biogas Usage Examples

Preposition: from

  • waste: Landfill Gas The potential to harvest biogas from landfill waste has been harnessed in sites around the world.
  • digestion: The most promising for the UK are landfill gas or biogas from anaerobic digestion of sewage or animal waste.
  • manure: For example, eight dairy farm projects won funding to use anaerobic digesters to create biogas from manure.

Converse of object

  • generate: Waste paper, not included in this chart, is also a good substrate for generating biogas.
  • produce: In the very extreme cases all the produced biogas has to be used for this heating.
  • use: Why has it not produced affordable domestic appliances that use biogas or solar energy?
  • make: Any materials used must be more tolerant of impurities such as sulfur, which often occur in biogas made from waste such as slurry.
  • burn: As the boiler burns biogas, a proportion of its output would be converted to electricity, while the rest heats the home.
  • have: Also, the feed is mainly composed of food waste, which has a relatively high biogas yield per ton.

Adjective modifier

  • clean: The clean biogas is then stored at pressure for use in the fuel cell.

Modifies a noun

  • digester: Cattle dung is no longer stored in the home, but is fed directly to the biogas digester along with toilet waste.
  • yield: Jennifer is trying to relate the inorganic content of the sludge to the relative biogas yields.
  • plant: A biogas plant is being installed in a rubber factory near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • production: Sixty percent of the total Swedish biogas production comes from these plants.
  • station: The biogas station 's return on investment is estimated to be 67 years at current electricity purchase prices.
  • energy: This figure represents the useable exported gas energy divided by the total biogas yield energy.

Noun used with modifier

  • methane: Engines fuelled by methane biogas or gases from old coal mines normally cease to function if the methane concentration drops below 40 per cent.
  • harvest: Landfill Gas The potential to harvest biogas from landfill waste has been harnessed in sites around the world.