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Advances in Biogas Technology

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Biogas technology has been practiced for over a century and is widely used in full-scale facilities in China. However, there are still many technological and economic barriers to be overcomed in its applications. Recent advances and multi-disciplinary cooperations in microbiology, biochemistry, and engineering science are bringing new promises of a better understanding and control of the anaerobic digestion processes, and thus a renaissance of this technology. In particular, great progress in biogas technology has been achieved in China in the approach to larger-scale and more widespread applications. This chapter overviews the recent advances in biogas technology in China, evaluates the current challenges, and discusses the emerging technologies and future perspectives.

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The authors wish to thank the NSFC-JST Joint Project (21021140001) for their partial support of this work.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, 150090, Harbin, China

    Ai-Jie Wang

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, 230026, Hefei, China

    Wen-Wei Li & Han-Qing Yu

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  1. Dept. Bioscience & Bioengineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China, People's Republic

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Wang, AJ., Li, WW., Yu, HQ. (2011). Advances in Biogas Technology. In: Bai, FW., Liu, CG., Huang, H., Tsao, G. (eds) Biotechnology in China III: Biofuels and Bioenergy. Advances in Biochemical Engineering Biotechnology, vol 128. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10_2011_126

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