Author : Suruchi Dedgaonkar, Ankita Mohire, Ajinkya Jadhav, Sonali Pawar and Rushikesh Bane

Biogas plants are slowly becoming popular due to the benefits associated with them like non-polluting and renewable energy source, reduces landfill and cheaper. They are already being used for public transport, industrial heating and many more applications. The demand for monitoring and control process is increasing. Better monitoring and control system can improve process stability and enhance process performance for better economy of the biogas plants. Biogas plant monitoring system gives an overall picture of the biogas generation process. It will be used to predict the current level of biogas so as to manage the input accordingly. Alerts will be sent using GSM and Android to monitor the input slurry. It will help to identify upcoming instabilities in anaerobic digesters before a crash happens. It can also accompany a successful start-up or re-start of a plant. All the data will be stored for quick reference and data mining algorithms can be applied in order to predict the behavior of the plant in different conditions. An attempt has been made to find the different ways to improve the overall performance of biogas plant. The objective is to develop a method for assessing and improving the efficiency of agricultural and household biogas plant operation.

Keywords: Biogas Monitoring System, GSM Etc.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.6, No.5 (Oct-2016)