Review article

Biogas as a renewable energy source

Matjaž Ošlaj ; University of Maribor, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, 2311 Hoče, Pivola 10, Slovenija
Bogomir Muršec ; University of Maribor, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, 2311 Hoče, Pivola 10, Slovenija

Abstract

Renewable energy technology does not simply produce energy, heat and transport fuel, but also offers the opportunity to live in the footsteps of a reasonable future development. In Europe and other industrialized regions, the main reason for the development of renewable energy is the environment, in particular the concern in relation to global climate change and the need to improve security and diversity of energy supply. In the developing countries, they promise a new hope for renewable primary energy supply in regions without conventional energy and provide an opportunity for sustainable development. Production of "green energy" from biogas, which is among the renewable energy sources, promises an environmentally less damaging way of obtaining energy by reducing CO2 emissions into the environment and reduces energy dependence on imported energy sources. Biogas production is of major importance for the sustainable use of agrarian biomass as renewable energy source.

Keywords

anaerobic digestion; biogas; manure; renewable energy

Hrčak ID:

50629

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/50629

Publication date:

31.3.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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