Effect of aeration rate and waste load on evolution of volatile fatty acids and waste stabilization during thermophilic aerobic digestion of a model high strength agricultural waste

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 721-730

  Obeta Ugwuanyi, J ^a,b   Harvey, L M ^a   McNeil, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

(TAD); Acetate; Agricultural waste; Air flow; Soluble chemical oxygen demand; Thermophilic aerobic digestion; Volatile fatty acids

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD); THERMOPHILIC AEROBIC DIGESTION (TAD);

FOOD PRODUCTS; SEWAGE AERATION; SLURRIES; SOLUBILITY; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

FATTY ACIDS;

ACETIC ACID; ACID; OXYGEN; PROPIONIC ACID;

AERATION; AEROBIC PROCESS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; FATTY ACID; ORGANIC MATTER; SLURRY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AERATION; AGRICULTURAL WASTE; AIR; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DIGESTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; PH; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REACTION ANALYSIS; REDUCTION; SOLID; SOLUBILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AEROBIOSIS; AGRICULTURE; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; HEAT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TIME FACTORS;

GADUS MORHUA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 9944236884     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2004.06.028     Document Type: Article

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