ABSTRACT
In a world of diminishing resources and increasing needs, each opportunity for the sustainable reuse of waste materials must be examined. Organic refuse from household, agriculture, and agro-industrial processing can help to fulfill the requirements for fuel and fertilizer. Biomethane production from organic wastes through anaerobic digestion is perceived as one of the viable options for the safe disposal of wastes without hindering the natural ecosystem. Despite its numerous advantages, anaerobic digestion at times tends to be ineffective due to certain bottlenecks associated with the inoculum and process instability owing to inhibitory products. This chapter envisages different parametric controls of anaerobic digestion that impede adoption of this technology in large scale and the mitigation strategies to overcome.
