Civil & Chemical Engineering: Industrial Idea Challenge!
(Problem Provided by Terra Agro Biotech Pvt Ltd)
Broad Theme: Waste Management towards Valuable Resources

Submission Deadline: 15/12/2022

TOPIC- Design of an Anaerobic Digestor

Common manure from animal industry, such as chicken litter and cow dung manure, is normally viewed negatively as an unpleasant and unviable waste product, which must be disposed of without any value. However, Chemical Engineering provides us with several solutions, as always, to even convert such waste products into resources. One such solution is an Anaerobic Digestor, where microorganisms break down biodegradable material in the absence of oxygen, to produce Biogas and digestate, for commercial applications.
Students, you can firstly read up a bit on the topic, then brainstorm about how to go about designing a Anaerobic Digestor, which means roughly answering questions such as, what type and capacity of equipment is required, what chemical / biological materials are required and in what amounts, what would be the operating conditions, time and energy requirement, etc.  Some specifications demanded are given to you (below). Additionally, you can also explore if renewable energy can meet the requirements of the process, to make it greener, and if so, how to source it.

Feed: 10 tons/day; Feed type: Sludge: mixed chicken litter and cow dung manure
Solids content in feed sludge: 50%, with density 1200 kg/m3
Desired products: Biogas and Digestate (product of Anaerobic Digestion)
Instructions:
• Be original in your work.
• You can work singly, or as a small team of students.
• Submit a mini-proposal (MS-Word/PDF) to 

Dr. Harsh Pandey,  harsh.pandey@jaipur.manipal.edu. 

                                             or 

upload your proposal on : https://forms.gle/dcE66zyjgPKAKfDd9 
• We expect a few pages submission, typed or hand-written and scanned.
• After the submission deadline, the panel of faculty experts will screen, short-list and evaluate the submissions. If your proposal is adjudged a winner, you will be notified, invited in the prize-distribution ceremony (Online), felicitated and awarded.
• Best wishes for all your future efforts!