This work proposes a semi-pilot scale procedure for the evaluation of biogas production potential and the employment of its results for the scale-up of the process. AD tests were performed at 35 C in 6 L reactors, feeding 3e6% w/w TS in a fed-batch mode. Several substrates, generated by food-processing industries, were considered in the study. Assuming solubilization as the limiting step, a theoretical model was proposed and the values of the disintegration kinetic constant (kdis) were calculated from the experimental data. The obtained model was employed as a control tool during tests afterward performed on pilot scale in a 300 L digester fed in a semi-continuous mode. Biogas yields between 0.5 and 0.9 Nm3/kgVS, and methane contents of 55e63% v/v were obtained on both scales. The model derived from the results of the proposed procedure appeared adequate for a consistent evaluation of the scale-up of the AD process.
Scale-up evaluation of the anaerobic digestion of food-processing industrial wastes / Fiore, Silvia; Ruffino, Barbara; Campo, Giuseppe; Roati, Chiara; Zanetti, Mariachiara. - In: RENEWABLE ENERGY. - ISSN 0960-1481. - STAMPA. - 96:(2016), pp. 949-959. [10.1016/j.renene.2016.05.049]
Scale-up evaluation of the anaerobic digestion of food-processing industrial wastes
FIORE, Silvia;RUFFINO, BARBARA;CAMPO, GIUSEPPE;ROATI, CHIARA;ZANETTI, Mariachiara
2016
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This work proposes a semi-pilot scale procedure for the evaluation of biogas production potential and the employment of its results for the scale-up of the process. AD tests were performed at 35 C in 6 L reactors, feeding 3e6% w/w TS in a fed-batch mode. Several substrates, generated by food-processing industries, were considered in the study. Assuming solubilization as the limiting step, a theoretical model was proposed and the values of the disintegration kinetic constant (kdis) were calculated from the experimental data. The obtained model was employed as a control tool during tests afterward performed on pilot scale in a 300 L digester fed in a semi-continuous mode. Biogas yields between 0.5 and 0.9 Nm3/kgVS, and methane contents of 55e63% v/v were obtained on both scales. The model derived from the results of the proposed procedure appeared adequate for a consistent evaluation of the scale-up of the AD process.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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