Multicriteria Decision Model and Thermal Pretreatment of Hotel Food Waste for Robust Output to Biogas: Case Study from City of Jaipur, India

Table 4

Net benefit of energy production from biogas due to the thermal pretreatment of FW.

Pretreatment conditions	Severity factor	Total biomass energy production; (MJ/kg VS)	Energy given for the pretreatment; (MJ/kg VS)	Net biogas energy production; (MJ/kg VS)
60°, 10min	1.7	13.35	46.06	Negative
80°, 10min	2.3	15.15	76.66	Negative
100°, 10min	2.9	18.16	107.46	Negative
Untreated FW	0	12.89	0	12.89