About 1.6 billion tons of food are wasted worldwide annually, calling for advanced methods to recycle waste into energy and materials. Anaerobic digestion kitchen allows the efficient recovery energy, induces low-carbon emissions. Nonetheless, stability biogas production variables, due dietary habits seasonal diet variations that modify components waste. Another challenge is recycling digestate...

The operating characteristics of six full-scale wastewater treatment plants using the staged, closed loop bioreactor process known as orbal were evaluated to determine the degree of simultaneous biological nutrient removal (SBNR) occurring. Low effluent total nitrogen concentrations indicate that simultaneous nitrification and denitrification occurs reliably in these facilities. The use of SRT ...

In the present study, two bench-scale anaerobic/ anoxic/ oxic submerged membrane bioreactors were used to study the effect of thermochemical sludge disintegration system on the excess sludge production. Among the two membrane bioreactors, one was named experimental membrane bioreactor and another one was named as control membrane bioreactor, where a part of the mixed liquor was treated with the...

Hydrogen may be considered a potential fuel for the future since it is carbon-free and oxidized to water as a combustion product. Bioconversion of synthesis gas (syngas) to hydrogen was demonstrated in continuous stirred tank bioreactor (CSTBR) utilizing acetate as a carbon source. An anaerobic photosynthetic bacterium, Rhodospirillum rubrum catalyzed water-gas shift reaction which was applied ...

<p>The amount of waste is increasing daily; however, the available land area limited. This problem can be overcome by segregating and other alternatives accelerating landfill stabilization using bioreactors. In this study, anaerobic bioreactor A with daily use water leachate, B addition reuse leachate daily, a control were used. The parameters measured pH, temperature, humidity, chemical ...

The microflora developing during a continuous enrichment culture from a hydrothermal chimney sample was investigated by molecular methods. The culture was performed in a gas-lift bioreactor under anaerobic conditions, at 90°C and pH 6.5, on a complex medium containing sulfur as the terminal electron acceptor. Archaeal and bacterial diversity was studied. Microorganisms affiliated with the gener...

In this paper, the stability analysis of an anaerobic digestion process is presented. The analysis is performed using a simplified mathematical model, which includes explicit temperature and pH dependence on kinetic growth rates. A detailed nonlinear and bifurcation analyses are performed in order to study the effects of temperature and pH parameters on the process behaviour. In addition, both ...

In this paper a neurofuzzy control strategy, composed by a neural observer and a fuzzy supervisor, for an anaerobic wastewater treatment process is proposed. The neural observer is based on a recurrent high order neural network (RHONN) which is trained by an extended Kalman filter. The main objective of the observer is to estimate methanogenic biomass, which is employed by a fuzzy supervisor. T...