What is biogas and biomass

What is biogas?

Biogas is defined as a biofuel that is produced naturally by the decomposition of various organic matte and biomass. Biogas is an environment friendly gas, and used by human beings for various purpose, this gas is known for his environment friendly behaviour because it helps to resolve few major environmental problems. There are several other reasons also which make this gas environment friendly for eg. biogas is formed in biogas plant  by utilizing  old organic wastes and degraded biomass, this also helps in keeping the environment clean along with the production of an efficient biofuel. Because these organic wastes otherwise cause pollution in earth.

Benefits of biogas production

As we discussed above biofuel is produced by utilizing the organic waste,which prevent the organic waste from creating pollution, this point itself is a major benefit of biogas production, which prevents the earth from pollution.

Biogas reduces the content of harmful gases in environment , for eg. methane a harmful gas released in the atmosphere from the organic wastes is converted to Carbon dioxide during the production of biogas,in this way biogas helps in decreasing the content of harmful gases in environment.

Biogas is helpful as during biogas production some digesters works in treating the municipal, industrial waste and even agricultural  waste. Thus these biogas digesters find a proper place for the decomposition of municipal wastes.

As biogas is a well known biofuel hence useful in several power operations such as used in electricity production, through the excreta of animals and along with this it is also helps in agricultural  operations, thus biogas is helpful in every aspect either it is environmental or economic.

Uses of biogas

There are several use of biogas we will discuss about these uses seperately in this part :-

• Used for cooking purpose- Biogas is commonly known for cooking purpose from ancient times, there was a time when it was a household gas, and most of the manure produced in countries like India was biogas production and this biogas was later on used for cooking purpose.

• Used as a fuel for vehicles- In some countries people are using biogas for running vehicles on road. This is very different and significant use of biogas which makes it so different from any other gas or any other biofuel.

• Used for electricity production- Biogas through some special techniques( by heating stirling motor)  is also used for production of electricity. Although the formation of this electricity is not much efficient but still it is a plus point of biogas that it can be used for the formation of electricity.

All these points described that how beneficial is biogas and biomass for our environment and for the demands of human need for eg. in cooking purpose or in electricity production. so, not only it is beneficial for environment but also fullfills the demands of human beings.