The paper proposed to use a Recurrent Neural Network Model (RNNM) and a dynamic Backpropagation learning for centralized identification of an anaerobic digestion bioprocess, carried out in a fixed bed and a recirculation tank of a wastewater treatment system. The anaerobic digestion bioprocess represented a distributed parameter system, described by partial differential equations. The analytica...

The oxidation of ammonium is a key step in the nitrogen cycle, regulating the production of nitrate, nitrous oxide and dinitrogen. In marine and freshwater ecosystems, anaerobic ammonium oxidation coupled to nitrite reduction, termed anammox, accounts for up to 67% of dinitrogen production1–3. Dinitrogen production through anaerobic ammonium oxidation has not been observed in terrestrial ecosys...

Fermentation of sugars for hydrogen production has received increasing interest as a “green fuel” process. Models describing products formation from sugar fermentation has been the focus, applied to generalize anaerobic digestion models. Such models have therefore been in continuous development. Beginning from fixed stoichiometry values as in ADM1 [1] (the most common platform in anaerobic dige...

Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a complex biological system which can be affected by several operational problems. Among them, biological foaming is one of the most difficult to deal with. It has many effects, such as causing gas pipe clogging and probe failures, and it can affect mixing devices, etc. Since the mechanisms involved in biological foaming development are not fully understood, it is no...

This review is a summary of different aspects of the design and operation of small-scale, household, biogas digesters. It covers different digester designs and materials used for construction, important operating parameters such as pH, temperature, substrate, and loading rate, applications of the biogas, the government policies concerning the use of household digesters, and the social and envir...

The present study investigated safety/toxicity profile of fixed dose combination of Ofloxacin-Ornidazole injection in Mus musculus mice at three dose levels, ranging from asymptomatic to high dose. To enhance the antimicrobial spectrum of the quinolones against anaerobic organisms and gram positive bacteria, fixed dose combination of Ofloxacin and Ornidazole injection was introduced. It has bee...

Fixed nitrogen limits primary productivity in most areas of the surface ocean. Nitrite oxidation is main source nitrate, abundant form inorganic fixed nitrogen. Even though known as an aerobic process, nitrite not always stimulated by increased oxygen concentration, and occurs layers minimum zones (OMZs) where detectable. Nitrite-oxidizing bacteria, since their original isolation aerobes, were ...

UNLABELLED Molybdenum nitrogenase (Nif), which catalyzes the reduction of dinitrogen to ammonium, has modulated the availability of fixed nitrogen in the biosphere since early in Earth's history. Phylogenetic evidence indicates that oxygen (O2)-sensitive Nif emerged in an anaerobic archaeon and later diversified into an aerobic bacterium. Aerobic bacteria that fix N2 have adapted a number of st...

We report, for the first time, extensive biologically mediated phosphate removal from wastewater during high-rate anaerobic digestion (AD). A hybrid sludge bed/fixed-film (packed pumice stone) reactor was employed for low-temperature (12°C) anaerobic treatment of synthetic sewage wastewater. Successful phosphate removal from the wastewater (up to 78% of influent phosphate) was observed, mediate...

Syed, M., Soreanu, G., Falletta, P. and Béland M. 2006. Removal of hydrogen sulfide from gas streams using biological processes A review. Canadian Biosystems Engineering/Le génie des biosystèmes au Canada 48: 2.1 2.14. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is a toxic and odorous compound present in biogas produced by the anaerobic digestion of biosolids and other organic materials. Due to its corrosive nature...