4. Conclusions
Biogas assimilation and flexible feeding were investigated at
different mixing regimes. A theory for biogas storage in digestate was
developed and an indirect measurement of the gas hold-up was intro-
duced and successfully applied in full scale. Biogas assimilation in the
digestate occurred only to a small extent of around 1% related to the
digestate volume and was, therefore, neglectable in terms of demand-
oriented biogas supply. It limits, however, the temporal resolution of
the biogas production rate to the length of a mixing interval. Increasing
stirring times accelerated the biogas production up to 50%, a decrease in
viscosity of 66% reduced the biogas storage in the digestate by 30%, but
no influence of the mixing regime on the methane yield was observed.
CRediT authorship contribution statement
Benjamin Ohnmacht: Methodology, Validation, Formal analysis,
Investigation, Resources, Writing - original draft, Visualization.
Andreas Lemmer: Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing
- review & editing, Supervision, Project administration, Funding
acquisition. Hans Oechsner: Supervision, Project administration,
Funding acquisition. Philipp Kress: Conceptualization, Methodology,
Resources, Data curation.
Declaration of Competing Interest
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial
interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence
the work reported in this paper.
Acknowledgment
The authors wish to thank the Federal Ministry of Food and Agri-
culture, Germany, (BMEL) for its financial support via FNR by funding
the research project “’OptiFlex”, Grant No. 22402716. We would like to
thank Jacqueline Kindermann and Annette Buschmann for analysing the
digestate samples. We thank Martin Gutbrod, Thomas H¨olz, Ali Bahcaci
and Bernd Fetzer for their daily surveillance of the research biogas plant
and Alexander Lehr for taking the samples.
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