A city has a population of 50000 people and they consume an average 20 million m3 of natural gas per year. What fraction of this demand could be met by digesting the refuse from this community. Assume solid waste generation rate is 2kg/person/day, Organics are in the form of glucose whose organic proportion is 54.40 %.
A city has a population of 50000 people and they consume an average 20 million m3 of natural gas per year. What fraction of this demand could be met by digesting the refuse from this community. Assume solid waste generation rate is 2kg/person/day, Organics are in the form of glucose whose organic proportion is 54.40 %.
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Transcribed Image Text:A city has a population of 50000 people and they consume an average 20 million m3 of natural gas
per year. What fraction of this demand could be met by digesting the refuse from this community.
Assume solid waste generation rate is 2kg/person/day, Organics are in the form of glucose whose
organic proportion is 54.40 %.
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