Industry 4.0
Vol. 10 (2025), Issue 4, pg(s) 132-135

DOMINANT TECHNOLOGIES IN “INDUSTRY 4.0”

Design and study of the operation of a green waste composter with energy cogeneration

  • 1 University of Mining and Geology, Bulgaria

Abstract

Nowadays, renewable bioenergy is considered as one of the ways to provide energy at the expense of fossil fuels. The possibility of obtaining energy from organic materials through bio-electrochemical systems attracts considerable interest. Green waste is organic plantbased materials generated from grass clippings, broken branches, fallen trees and others, the utilization of which is currently not very effective. In the present study, we constructed a composter based on bio-electrochemical systems for the utilization of green waste with cogeneration of energy. The composter showed good performance in terms of both the decomposition of organics and the generated energy.

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