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employing food waste to generate biogas while addressing waste management and
nutrient recycling.
Food waste mainly consists of carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and traces of inorganic
compounds. e composition varies in accordance with the type of food waste and its
constituents. Food waste consisting of rice and vegetables is abundant in carbohydrates
while food waste consisting of meat and eggs has high quantity of proteins and lipids.
(Kunwar et al., 2017)
Generation of methane via anaerobic process is an appro- priate solution for food waste
management. e process has lesser cost and low residual waste production and utilization
of food waste as renewable source of energy [Nasir, 2012].
Due to high potential for biomethanation, food waste is a reliable and promising substrate
for anaerobic digestion activity.
I. M. Nasir, T. I. M. Ghazi, and R. Omar, “Production of biogas from solid organic wastes
through anaerobic digestion: a review,” Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, vol. 95, no. 2,
pp. 321–329, 2012.