Process parameters within a 750,000 litre anaerobic digester during a year of disturbed fermenter performance

Waste Management

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1838-1843

  Illmer, P ^a   Schwarzenauer, T ^a   Malin, C ^a   Wagner, A O ^a   Miller, L M ^a   Gstraunthaler, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Abfallbeseitigungsverband Westtirol ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTERS; BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMANDS; CONCENTRATION OF; DRY WEIGHTS; GAS PRODUCTIONS; PROCESS PARAMETERS; PROPIONIC; PROPIONIC ACIDS; RETENTION TIME; VALERIC ACIDS; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

ACIDS; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOGAS; CARBOHYDRATES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FATTY ACIDS; MICROORGANISMS; OXYGEN;

FERMENTERS;

ACETIC ACID; BIOGAS; BUTYRIC ACID; PROPIONIC ACID; VALERIC ACID;

ABUNDANCE; ACETIC ACID; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIODEGRADATION; BIOGAS; CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FATTY ACID; FERMENTATION; METHANE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SUBSTRATE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ANAEROBIC REACTOR; ARTICLE; PARAMETER; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BIOREACTORS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FERMENTATION; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 63349095978     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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