This book focuses on biogas production by anaerobic digestion, which is the most popular bioenergy technology of today. Using anaerobic digestion for the production of biogas is a sustainable approach that simultaneously also allows the treatment of organic waste. The energy contained in the substrate is released in the form of biogas, which can be employed as a renewable fuel in diverse industrial sectors.

Although biogas generation is considered an established process, it continues to evolve, e.g. by incorporating modifications and improvements to increase its efficiency and its downstream applications. The chapters of this book review the progress made related to feedstock, system configuration and operational conditions. It also addresses microbial pathways utilized, as well as storage, transportation and usage of biogas.

This book is an up-to-date resource for scientists and students working on improving biogas production.

Part 1: Trends in Biogas Production Technologies

Chapter 1: Technological routes for biogas production: Current status and future perspectives
Chapter 2: Prospects and challenges in Biogas Technology: Indian Scenario
Chapter 3: Anaerobic digestion technology for management of organic wastes: Latin American context
Chapter 4: Biogas technology for animal manure management in USA: State of art, opportunities, challenges and perspectives
Chapter 5: Anaerobic digestion in Europe: Key to sustainable waste management, challenges and perspectives
Chapter 6: Advances and challenges of anaerobic digestion of wastes and wastewaters from different industrial sectors
Chapter 7: Comparative analysis of biogas with renewable fuels and energy: physio-chemical properties, and carbon footprints
Part 2: Improving biogas production: Progress, challenges and perspectives
Chapter 8: Potential feedstock for sustainable biogas production, transportation and supply chain analysis
Chapter9: Potentials and challenges of micro and macroalgae as feedstock for biogas production
Chapter 10: The realm of microorganisms in Biogas production: Microbial diversity, functional role, community interactions and monitoring the status of biogas plants
Chapter 11: Metabolic engineering: A tool to increase the methane yield and efficiency of anaerobic digestion process
Chapter 12: Scale-up operations for biogas production: Analysis on critical factors governing large scale operations
Chapter 13: Biogas processing, storage and distribution, transportation and value chain analysis
Chapter 14: Potentials and challenges of biogas upgradation as liquid biomethane
Chapter 15: Nutrient value of digestates in soil fertility and productivity
Part 3: Economics of Biogas Technology
Chapter 16: Biogas commercialization: Commercial players, key business drivers, potential market and fostering investment.- Chapter 17: Biogas in circular bio-economy: Sustainable practice for rural farm waste management & techno-economic analyses
Chapter 18: Biogas technology in Africa: An assessment of feedstock, barriers, socio-economic impact and the way forward
Chapter 19: Governmental policies to promote biogas production, boosting role of biogas in economic growth of developing nations.