Abstract
The present study investigated the effect of alkali and biochar addition for simultaneous increment of hydrolysis and syntropy for higher methane yield from pearl millet straw (PMS) in solid state anaerobic digestion. A taguchi based design of experiment was coupled with grey relation analysis for multiple output optimization. Study showed that 0.5 g (g/100 g PMS) of alkali and 10 g/L of biochar was the optimised dosing. Statistically, contribution of biochar and alkali was 48 and 21% respectively on the multiple output. The confirmation test revealed that hydrolysis rate constant, k and total volatile fatty acid/alkalinity ratio for reactor having optimised conditions was 0.0521 d-1 and 0.36 while for control, it was 0.0595 d-1 and 0.76 respectively. Techno-economic assessment showed US$ 25,652 of net present value and 11.29% of internal rate of return. Sensitivity analysis showed that capital expenditure and methane yield was most sensitive to net present value.
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