Effect of various leachate recirculation strategies on batch anaerobic digestion of solid substrates

International Journal of Environment and Waste Management

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 69-88

  Kusch, Sigrid ^a,b,c   Oechsner, Hans ^b   Jungbluth, Thomas ^b,c  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Batch process; Biogas; Dry digestion; Leachate recirculation; One stage system

Indexed keywords

BATCH DATA PROCESSING; BIOGAS; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BATCH PROCESS; COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTS; DRY DIGESTIONS; LEACHATE RECIRCULATION; ONE-STAGE SYSTEMS; RATE-LIMITING STEPS; SOLID PHASE DIGESTION; WATER CIRCULATION;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION;

EID: 84857206649     PISSN: 14789876     EISSN: 14789868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEWM.2012.044161     Document Type: Article

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