title: Experimental and modeling study of a two-stage pilot scale high solid anaerobic digester system.
abstract: This study established a comprehensive model to configure a new two-stage high solid anaerobic digester (HSAD) system designed for highly degradable organic fraction of municipal solid wastes (OFMSW). The HSAD reactor as the first stage was naturally separated into two zones due to biogas floatation and low specific gravity of solid waste. The solid waste was retained in the upper zone while only the liquid leachate resided in the lower zone of the HSAD reactor. Continuous stirred-tank reactor (CSTR) and advective-diffusive reactor (ADR) models were constructed in series to describe the whole system. Anaerobic digestion model No. 1 (ADM1) was used as reaction kinetics and incorporated into each reactor module. Compared with the experimental data, the simulation results indicated that the model was able to well predict the pH, volatile fatty acid (VFA) and biogas production.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA.
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Quanbao
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Jingwei
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Craig
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Frear
authors.forename: Shulin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000693:Anaerobiosis; D056804:Biofuels; D019149:Bioreactors; D004058:Diffusion; D007700:Kinetics; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D056804:Biofuels