Abstract
India is an agrarian country producing a large amount of rice straw as an agricultural residue. These residues are burnt openly leading to severe environmental pollution and health hazards. Among several options available, anaerobic digestion of rice straw into biomethane gas and digestate is a promising technology. The current paper reviews the characteristics, principles of rice straw and the process variables (temperature, volatile fatty acids, and pH, carbon to nitrogen ratio, metal elements and organic loading rate) that affect the performance of the rice straw digestion and process strategies which may alleviate the barriers and may improve the biomethane yield. Co-digestion of rice straw with nitrogen-rich substrates is proven to be an effective way to balance the carbon to nitrogen ratio, in turn, leads to nutrient balance and enhance the biomethane yields of anaerobic co-digestion system. Moreover, pretreatment is another effective strategy; physical, chemical and biological pretreatments are reviewed in the article which improved the performance of digester. The utilisation of rice straw along with other co-substrates and appropriate pretreatment may be a recommended sustainable solution for preventing environmental and health hazards.
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Abbreviations
- AD:
-
Anaerobic digestion
- RS:
-
rice straw
- VFA:
-
Volatile fatty acids
- L-AD:
-
Liquid anaerobic digestion
- C/N ratio:
-
Carbon to nitrogen ratio
- SS-AD:
-
Solid-state anaerobic digestion
- VS:
-
Volatile solids
- TS:
-
Total solids
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Mothe, S., Polisetty, V.R. Review on anaerobic digestion of rice straw for biogas production. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 24455–24469 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-08762-9
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