biogas
biogas
Definition
bio·gas (bī′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
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