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The estimation of biogas production from organic monomers is very important for the optimal design, configuration, and efficient evaluation of the anaerobic digestion processes in a digester. The theoretical estimation of the biogas potential that is most used is that of Buswell and Boyle. In this work, we found that this estimate was much exaggerated compared to the real biogas potential determined in practice. For monosaccharides, we noted that the biogas potential of glucose was very low compared to that of fructose, even though the two substrates have the same chemical composition and molecular mass. The same result was observed for the disaccharides lactose and maltose. The amino acid valine produced more biogas than the amino acid cysteine did. The experimental potential remained lower than the calculated potential. An important difference existed between the experimental biogas potential of the six monomers investigated and the theoretical biogas potential. This indicated that the calculation of the biogas potential by the stereochemical equation of Buswell and Boyle was overstated and did not take into consideration the isometric form, spatial configuration, and intermediate metabolite produced by the monosaccharides in the four steps of anaerobic digestion. For the disaccharides, the theoretical calculations did not take into account the nature of the molecular components in carbohydrate, type of glycosidic bond, and intermediate metabolites of substrates for anaerobic digestion. Finally, for the amino acids, it does not take into account the ramification of the atomic components and the chemical nature of atoms in amino acids.
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El Asri, O., Afilal, M.E. Comparison of the experimental and theoretical production of biogas by monosaccharides, disaccharides, and amino acids. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 15, 1957–1966 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-017-1570-1
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