Journal of Engineering and Applied Science

Table 7 Water hyacinth fermentation results in the gross and net parameters

From: Modeling and assessment of the techno-economic analysis of biogas and its potential for the generation of electricity from water hyacinth biomass

Gross parameter values					Net parameter values
Parameter	Units	F1	F2	F3	F2	F3
Methane content	V/V%	64.33	53.46	51.85	46.41	43.31
Methane volume	ml	5007.31	10,583.61	9938.34	5576.30	4931.02
Biogas volume	ml	7784.30	19,798.79	19,168.55	12,014.49	11,384.25
Sp. biogas volume	ml/gVS	-	129.94	125.80	867.47	821.97
Specific methane volume	ml CH₄/gVS	-	69.46	65.23	402.62	356.03

Water hyacinth (gVS) = 13.85, fruit waste sludge inoculum (gVS) = 138.52, total volatile solids (gVS)

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