title: Numerical simulation of organic waste aerobic biodegradation: a new way to correlate respiration kinetics and organic matter fractionation.
abstract: Composting wastes permits the reuse of organic matter (OM) as agricultural amendments. The fate of OM during composting and the subsequent degradation of composts in soils largely depend on waste OM quality. The proposed study aimed at developing a model to predict the evolution in organic matter quality during the aerobic degradation of organic waste, based on the quantification of the various OM fractions contained in the wastes. The model was calibrated from data gathered during the monitoring of four organic wastes (two non-treated wastes and their digestates) exposed to respirometric tests. The model was successfully fitted for all four wastes and permitted to predict respiration kinetics, expressed as CO2 production rates, and the evolution of OM fractions. The calibrated model demonstrated that hydrolysis rates of OM fractions were similar for all four wastes whereas the parameters related to microbial activity (eg. growth and death rates) were specific to each substrate. These later parameters have been estimated by calibration on respirometric data, thus demonstrating that coupling analyses of OM fractions in initial wastes and respirometric tests permit the simulation of the biodegradation of various type of waste. The biodegradation model presented in this paper could thereafter be integrated in a composting model by implementing mass and heat balance equations.
authors.affiliation: Agrocampus Ouest, UMR1069 Sol Agro et hydrosystème Spatialisation, F-35000 Rennes, France; INRA, UMR1069 Sol Agro et hydrosystème Spatialisation, F-35000 Rennes, France; Irstea, UR GERE, 17 avenue de Cucillé, CS 64427, F-35044 Rennes Cedex, France; Université Européenne de Bretagne, France. Electronic address: jeremy.denes@rennes.inra.fr.
authors.forename: Jeremy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Denes
authors.affiliation: Irstea, UR GERE, 17 avenue de Cucillé, CS 64427, F-35044 Rennes Cedex, France; Université Européenne de Bretagne, France. Electronic address: anne.tremier@irstea.fr.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tremier
authors.affiliation: Agrocampus Ouest, UMR1069 Sol Agro et hydrosystème Spatialisation, F-35000 Rennes, France; INRA, UMR1069 Sol Agro et hydrosystème Spatialisation, F-35000 Rennes, France; Université Européenne de Bretagne, France. Electronic address: safya.menasseri@agrocampus-ouest.fr.
authors.forename: Safya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Menasseri-Aubry
authors.affiliation: Agrocampus Ouest, UMR1069 Sol Agro et hydrosystème Spatialisation, F-35000 Rennes, France; INRA, UMR1069 Sol Agro et hydrosystème Spatialisation, F-35000 Rennes, France; Université Européenne de Bretagne, France. Electronic address: christian.walter@agrocampus.ouest.fr.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Walter
authors.affiliation: Irstea, UR GERE, 17 avenue de Cucillé, CS 64427, F-35044 Rennes Cedex, France. Electronic address: laurette.gratteau@irstea.fr.
authors.forename: Laurette
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gratteau
authors.affiliation: Irstea, UR GERE, 17 avenue de Cucillé, CS 64427, F-35044 Rennes Cedex, France; Université Européenne de Bretagne, France. Electronic address: suzellebarrington@sympatico.ca.
authors.forename: Suzelle
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Barrington
mesh_terms: D000332:Aerobiosis; D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental; D005591:Chemical Fractionation; D003198:Computer Simulation; D007700:Kinetics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009930:Organic Chemicals / Q000032:analysis*; D059027:Recycling; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000379:methods*; D012987:Soil / Q000737:chemistry; D062611:Solid Waste / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D009930:Organic Chemicals; D012987:Soil; D062611:Solid Waste
keywords: Biochemical fractionation; Biodegradation; Composting; Modeling; Organic waste; Respiration rate