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  • Glossary item | 19 Mar 2025
Digestate
Bioeconomy

Defined simply as the digested residue of anaerobic digestion (AD), digestate refers to a set of heterogeneous matters featuring different biochemical compositions and physical properties inherited from greatly diversified AD processes and feedstocks.

Felipe Guilayn, J Jimenez, M Rouez, M Crest, Dominique Patureau. Biogas digestate typologies. Sixteenth International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium, Oct 2017, Sardinia, Italy. pp.1-29, 10.15454/kpf7-z784. hal-03359732

Source category: Scientific & Technical Literature