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     Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology

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2013(Vol.5, Issue:02)
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Towards Deriving Renewable Energy from Aquatic Macrophytes Polluting Water Bodies in Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

Badmus Abdurrahman Adeleye, Asimi Adetunji and Isaac Bamgboye
Corresponding Author:  Badmus Abdurrahman Adeleye 
Submitted: April 27, 2012
Accepted: May 29, 2012
Published: January 11, 2013
Abstract:
This study was performed to derive methane rich biogas from biomass of harvested water hyacinth polluting water bodies in selected rivers of the Niger delta region of Nigeria. Field visits were undertaken on selected rivers in the Niger Delta region in which aquatic macrophytes were collected and inventorized. Also different types of aquatic macrophytes were surveyed. Control by harvesting macrophytes and deriving energy (methane-rich biogas from biomass of one (water hyacinth) was successfully carried out in this study. An initial test was conducted to evaluate methane rich biogas production from water hyacinth collected from the wild. After a successful production of combustible biogas, laboratory experiments aimed at generating biogas from harvested biomass of aquatic mycrophyte (water hyacinth) cultivated under eutrophic and oligotrophic conditions were undertaken in the laboratory. The result of the study showed highest biogas yield of 22 L over a 40 day retention time for water hyacinth raised under eutrophic conditions. Biogas yield for water hyacinth raised under oligotrophic conditions recorded the highest yield of 53L over an 11 day retention time. The conversion of the biomass of harvested aquatic macrophyte (water hyacinth) from the Niger Delta into renewable energy, that is combustible biogas, demonstrated an inevitable option for the control and management of environmental pollution associated with aquatic macrophytes and their usability for poverty alleviation in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

Key words:  Biogas, from Niger delta aquatic macrophytes, produce, , , ,
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Badmus Abdurrahman Adeleye, Asimi Adetunji and Isaac Bamgboye, . Towards Deriving Renewable Energy from Aquatic Macrophytes Polluting Water Bodies in Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, (02): 387-391.
ISSN (Online):  2040-7467
ISSN (Print):   2040-7459
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