Description
Process Biogas Data and Predict Biogas Production.
Description
High- and low-level functions for processing biogas data and predicting biogas production. Molar mass and calculated oxygen demand (COD') can be determined from a chemical formula. Measured gas volume can be corrected for water vapor and to (possibly user-defined) standard temperature and pressure. Gas quantity can be converted between volume, mass, and moles. Gas composition, cumulative production, or other variables can be interpolated to a specified time. Cumulative biogas and methane production (and rates) can be calculated using volumetric, manometric, gravimetric, or gas density methods for any number of bottles. With cumulative methane production data and data on bottle contents, biochemical methane potential (BMP) can be calculated and summarized, including subtraction of the inoculum contribution and normalization by substrate mass. Cumulative production and production rates can be summarized in several different ways (e.g., omitting normalization) using the same function. Biogas quantity and composition can be predicted from substrate composition and additional, optional data. Lastly, inoculum and substrate mass can be determined for planning BMP experiments.
README.md
Overview
The biogas package is an R package for biogas research. It provides tools for processing biogas data, predicting biogas production, making conversions, and planning experiments. For example, the calcBgVol() function can be used for calculating biochemical methane potential from original measurements. See the vignettes and the links given below for more information.
Links etc.
- Open-source paper describing the package: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2018.06.005
- Researchgate project page: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Biogas-Software
- Web application interface to the package (OBA): https://biotransformers.shinyapps.io/oba1/
- Mailing list: sasha.hafner at eng.au.dk
Branch organization
- dev: main development branch for work on package
- master: merged with dev before submission to CRAN
- version number branches (e.g., 10.0.2): archived versions that are available on CRAN.