Methane gas production from a mixture of cow manure, chicken manure, cabbage waste, and liquid tofu waste using the anaerobic digestion method

Abstract

Biomass is valuable alternative energy worldwide as a substitute for fossil fuels can be converted into various forms of usable energy such as heat, steam, electricity, biogas, and liquid transportation biofuels. Cabbage waste, tofu liquid waste, cow dung and chicken manure is dangerous for the surrounding environment, which produces CH4 gas and has quite high BOD and COD values. This liquid waste has an amount of COD, suspended solids, and a high total solids content. One solution to overcome this pollution is by processing the waste into biogas, especially methane gas. The material will be transformed into methane gas by fermentation through the anaerobic digestion method. Before converting into biogas, initial characterization will be carried out in total C content, total N, COD, and C/N ratio. Then, from the biogas produced, the maximum data obtained is in variable B4 (55% cow dung: 15% chicken manure: 15% cabbage waste: 15% liquid tofu waste) with a total amount of gas of 7140 ml. This shows that tofu liquid waste can increase the potential amount of biogas produced.