The potential and realization of novel biogas technology is investigated in this project specific to the local conditions and environment in Egypt. The co-fermentation technology in anaerobic digesting biogas reactors is studied with input substrates from primary and secondary agricultural waste, in addition to tertiary organic waste from the food processing and consumption industry further downstream in the provision chain.

Substrates will be studied experimentally both on lab and pilot scale levels. This will identify the optimum chemistry and biological processing required for a more economic and scalable production of an efficient waste-to-energy conversion (power, heating and cooling) solution; in addition to a beneficial utilization of waste water and use of digestate as fertilizer/compost achieving a circular economy. The design, optimization and economic operation of co-fermenting anaerobic biogas plants will be augmented using a computational approach in order to achieve adequate input and output design parameters sensitive to the urban and suburban locations across Egyptian governorates.