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- Production
- Natural
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- Biogas plants
- Landfill gas
- Dangers
- Composition
- Contaminants
- Sulfur compounds
- Ammonia
- Siloxanes
- Debate
- Arguments in favor
- Arguments against
- Applications
- Biogas upgrading
- Biogas gas-grid injection
- Biogas in transport
- Biogas generated heat/electricity
- Technological advancements
- Wastewater Treatment
- Legislation
- European Union
- United States
- Global developments
- United States
- Europe
- UK
- Italy
- Germany
- Developing countries
- Household level and decentralized systems
- Geographic and social/economic factors
- Feedstocks and Agricultural systems
- Limitations and Challenges
- Emerging alternative energy feedstocks
- India
- China
- Zambia
- Associations
- Society and culture
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Biogas is a renewable gaseous fuel generated from organic materials including agricultural residues, manure, municipal waste, plant matter, sewage, wastewater, green waste, and food waste. Biogas is produced by anaerobic digestion with anaerobic organisms or methanogens inside an anaerobic digester, biodigester or a bioreactor. The gas composition is primarily methane () and carbon dioxide () and may have small amounts of hydrogen sulfide (), moisture and siloxanes. The methane can be combusted or oxidized with oxygen. This energy release allows biogas to be used as a fuel; it can be used in fuel cells and for heating purposes, such as in cooking. It can also be used in a gas engine to convert the energy in the gas into electricity and heat.