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Ongoing project
Development of an Intelligent Sanitation Waste-to-Biogas System for Sustainable Household Cooking and Biomethane Recovery
Summary
Sanitation waste is an environmental and public-health challenge with significant potential for renewable biogas production. However, conventional cooking fuels remain costly, while small-scale biogas systems face gas-quality, reliability, and monitoring limitations.
Objective: To develop a safe, intelligent, and scalable sanitation-to-biogas system for clean cooking and methane recovery.
A 1–5 m³ anaerobic digester will be integrated with moisture and H₂S removal, gas storage, regulation, and a biogas burner. A membrane-based upgrading unit will produce CH₄-rich biomethane. IoT sensors and AI will monitor and optimize gas production using parameters such as temperature, pH, flow, and gas composition.
The system combines sanitation management, anaerobic digestion, gas purification, membrane upgrading, IoT monitoring, and AI-based optimization.
The project will deliver a functional prototype, purification and biomethane-upgrading systems, an AI monitoring platform, and technical, economic, and environmental assessments. It will contribute to clean cooking, improved sanitation, methane recovery, reduced fuel consumption, and circular-economy development. |
Objective: To develop a safe, intelligent, and scalable sanitation-to-biogas system for clean cooking and methane recovery.
A 1–5 m³ anaerobic digester will be integrated with moisture and H₂S removal, gas storage, regulation, and a biogas burner. A membrane-based upgrading unit will produce CH₄-rich biomethane. IoT sensors and AI will monitor and optimize gas production using parameters such as temperature, pH, flow, and gas composition.
The system combines sanitation management, anaerobic digestion, gas purification, membrane upgrading, IoT monitoring, and AI-based optimization.
The project will deliver a functional prototype, purification and biomethane-upgrading systems, an AI monitoring platform, and technical, economic, and environmental assessments. It will contribute to clean cooking, improved sanitation, methane recovery, reduced fuel consumption, and circular-economy development. |