• A.Kamalakannan
• T.Ramesh
• S.Palanivelraja

Anaerobic digestion of municipal solid waste was carried out in this study for 45 days at room temperature in batch reactors with various inocula at different inoculum ratios. Inocula used were cow dung, domestic sewage and sheep manure. The digestion was carried out in laboratory scale. The characteristics of the MSW, cow dung, domestic sewage and sheep manure were analyzed. The performance of reactor was evaluated by measuring the daily biogas production.At the end of the study, the biogas yield from the reactors the maximum bio gas production in this inoculums in CD30, DS30 and SM30 was 6890 ml, 6000 ml and 5009 ml respectively. The percentage of methane in the biogas produced with cow dung as inoculum was found to be 68%, percentage of methane in the biogas produced with domestic sewage as inoculum was found to be 62% and percentage of methane in the biogas produced with sheep manure as inoculum was found to be 58%.

Anaerobic digestion, batch reactor, biogas, municipal solid waste.

"COMPARISON OF VARIOUS INOCULA FOR OPTIMIZING THE EFFICIENCY OF SOLID STATE ANAEROBIC DIGESTION OF ORGANIC FRACTION MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE IN MESOPHILIC CONDITION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.89-94, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903F13.pdf

"COMPARISON OF VARIOUS INOCULA FOR OPTIMIZING THE EFFICIENCY OF SOLID STATE ANAEROBIC DIGESTION OF ORGANIC FRACTION MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE IN MESOPHILIC CONDITION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp89-94, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903F13.pdf