Monitoring of Methane Biogas Extraction System from Cow Manure with Iron Oxide as Catalyst

With the increasing demand for energy in the past couple of years, this study developed a methane biogas extraction system capable of measuring the concentration of methane gas using gas sensors and a microcontroller to interpret the data and display the result. The researchers used different combin...

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Published in:	2019 IEEE 11th International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment, and Management ( HNICEM ) pp. 1 - 4
Main Authors:	Garcia, Ramon G., Cruz, Febus Reidj G., Bernardo, Iana Patricia C., Jandoc, Allana Nicole G., Mendoza, Keith Jules C., Reola, Lalaine Ann G.
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE 01-11-2019
Subjects:	anaerobic digestion biogas Containers cow manure Cows Fires Gas detectors gas sensor iron oxide Methane Monitoring
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Summary:	With the increasing demand for energy in the past couple of years, this study developed a methane biogas extraction system capable of measuring the concentration of methane gas using gas sensors and a microcontroller to interpret the data and display the result. The researchers used different combinations: from 1 kg to 5 kg of cow manure and 100 mL to 400 mL of iron oxide catalyst. The yielded gas from every 5 kg of cow manure with different amounts of catalyst were tested to produce fire. The results showed that the combination with the longest duration of fire of 32.31 seconds was produced from a concentration of approximately 3610 ppm of methane gas from the 5 kg manure and 400 mL catalyst. The findings indicated that the manure and catalyst mixture had not yet reached a saturation point suggesting that more methane gas could be produced if stored for more days.
DOI:	10.1109/HNICEM48295.2019.9073381