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Perform pretreatment is crucial particularly in the case of the use of hard-degradable biomass, the biochemical susceptibility to degradation, for example, alcoholic fermentation is limited. Biomass disintegration processes lead to the destruction of compact structures and release of the organic substance to the phase dissolved in a resultant increase in the concentration of dissolved easily degradable organic substances. Effective pretreatment should meet several criteria, including ensuring the separation of lignin from cellulose, to increase the share of amorphous cellulose, provide a higher porosity substrates, eliminate waste sugars limit formation of inhibitors, minimize energy costs. The aim of this paper is to show the possibilities of using electromagnetic microwave radiation for pre-treatment plant biomass before the fermentation process of alcohol and comparison of the effectiveness of the described method with other commonly used techniques of pre-treatment. The substrate subjected to microwave treatment has a fast rate of hydrolysis and a high content of glucose in the hydrolyzate, which increases the efficiency of the production of bioethanol.

These studies were designed to determine the optimum parameters of respirometric susceptibility test substrates for anaerobic digestion plant for example silage Sida. Biochemical dynamics of organic material determined by measuring blood OxiTop. The experiment was conducted in three series of research, different load measuring cells, the initial charge of organic compounds, a series of I – 5 gd.o.m/l, Series II – 10 gd.o.m/l, Series III – 20 gd.o.m/l. Fermentation was carried out in mesophilic conditions for 20 days in an anaerobic reaction chambers inoculated with activated sludge. Achieved a maximum of 3500 ml of biogas in series III, the least biogas created in Series I, which introduced the smallest load of organic compounds. Based on the results of the biogas production rate was determined in a series I was on y = 365 ml/gd.o.m, in the second series was y = 319 ml/gd.o.m. and the series III y = 278 ml/gd.o.m. Measuring the quality of the resulting biogas pointed to the relationship between the content of methane in the biogas with an initial charge of organic matter introduced into the reaction chamber, the methane content of the biogas ranged from 37% in the third series of up to 48% in the series and the experiment.

The study aimed to determine the effect of the load cell model anaerobic load of organic substances contained in the whey acidic fermentation kinetics of transformation. Specified rate of biogas production and the amount and composition of the product gas quality sludge anaerobic metabolism. The highest yield of biogas rate of 945 ml was obtained during the application of the load of 4.0 g / l, the ratio of production rate of 0.25 k 1 / d Biogas production rate increased with the increase of the initial charge of organic compounds introduced into the digester and the model was in the range from 96.3 to 236.5. Biogas composition analysis revealed that the highest concentration of methane was obtained at a load of 1.0 g / l