Design, commissioning, and start-up of a sequentially fed leach bed reactor complete with an Upflow anaerobic sludge blanket digesting grass silage

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 823-834

  Nizami, Abdul Sattar ^a   Singh, Anoop ^a   Murphy, Jerry D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATCH PROCESS; BATCH SYSTEMS; BATCH TESTS; BED REACTORS; CAPITAL COSTS; GAS PRODUCTIONS; HIGH RATE; HIGH SOLID CONTENT; METHANE PRODUCTION; MICROBIAL PROCESS; MOVING PARTS; PAPER DOCUMENTS; PILOT SCALE; REACTOR VOLUME; RELIABLE SYSTEMS; RETENTION TIME; START-UPS; TWO-PHASE PROCESS; UPFLOW ANAEROBIC SLUDGE BLANKETS; UPPER LIMITS; VOLATILE SOLID; WET DIGESTION;

BATCH DATA PROCESSING; FEEDSTOCKS; LEACHING; METHANE;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION;

EID: 79951866687     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef101739d     Document Type: Conference Paper

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