Chemical Oxygen Demand Analysis of Anaerobic Digester Contents

Anaerobic Digester Feasibility Study

Effect of Thermal Hydrolysis on Anaerobic Digester Performance

Anaerobic digestion (AD) has been recently introduced as a promising technology for producing bioenergy around the world. Due to its especial characteristics, solid waste could be considered as a proper feedstock in the digester. Retention time (RT) and rate of biogas production are two major parameters affecting the efficiency of the process. The AD procedure of biogas production consists of h...

The “chemical Oxygen Demand / Total Volatile Acids” Ratio as an Anaerobic Treatability Indicator for Landfill Leachates

In some operational circumstances a fast evaluation of landfill leachate anaerobic treatability is necessary, and neither Biochemical Methane Potential nor BOD/COD ratio are fast enough. Looking for a fast indicator, this work evaluated the anaerobic treatability of landfill leachate from São Carlos-SP (Brazil) in a pilot scale Anaerobic Sequence Batch Biofilm Reactor (AnSBBR). The experiment w...

Understanding and Predicting Foam in Anaerobic Digester

As a result of the ambiguity and complexity surrounding anaerobic digester foaming, efforts have been made by various researchers to understand the process of anaerobic digester foaming so as to proffer a solution that can be universally applied rather than site specific. All attempts ranging from experimental analysis to comparative review of other process has not fully explained the condition...

Relationship between theoretical oxygen demand and photocatalytic chemical oxygen demand for specific classes of organic chemicals

The oxidation behavior of twenty organic chemicals from four different classes (sugars, benzene derivatives, alcohols and carboxyl acids) were investigated using the official chemical oxygen demand (COD) methods (i.e., permanganate and dichromate methods) and their oxidation levels compared with the theoretical oxygen demand (ThOD) values. In addition, the correlation between the official COD a...