Biogas Production from water hyacinth

Abstract

The present study aims to produce biogas by means of anaerobic fermentation. In this research used empirical methods find out the production of biogas by anaerobic. The first chemical experiments were carried out on green and dry Water Hyacinths leaves where protein content was (4.12%, 12.54%), moisture content (83.44%, 5.88%), ash content (2.853%, 11.698%) fat (4.3%, 1.4885%), and carbohydrates (8.099%, 65.58%) respectively. The samples of study were selected from different sources firstly green herbs secondly dry herbs and lastly mixed green and dry herbs with concentration (34%, 18% and 24%), respectively, and after ten days of fermentation, the results showed clearly that the largest production of biogas was from digester (A), which contains green herbs followed by production of digester (C), which contains the mixture of green and dry herbs and the lowest productivity recorded digester (B) which contains dry herbs, where the total volume gas produced after ten days each alone on models (162,509.71, 139,273.12 and 91540.35) cm3 respectively, the finding of this study showed that the green grass is the best in terms of the amount of gas produced, the study recommends ,to add a processing unit to produce methane gas.