Effect of digestion temperature and pH on treatment efficiency and evolution of volatile fatty acids during thermophilic aerobic digestion of model high strength agricultural waste

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 707-719

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Acetate; Aerobic thermophilic digestion, TAD; Agricultural waste; Soluble chemical oxygen demand, COD; Volatile fatty acids

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD); SOLUBLE SOLIDS (SS); THERMOPHILIC AEROBIC DIGESTION (TAD);

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; DEGRADATION; PH EFFECTS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

FATTY ACIDS;

ACETIC ACID; CARBOHYDRATE; ISOVALERIC ACID; OXYGEN; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

AEROBIC PROCESS; BATCH PROCESS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DIGESTION; FATTY ACID; ORGANIC MATTER; PH; SLURRY; TEMPERATURE;

ACIDITY; AGRICULTURAL WASTE; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INOCULATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIPID STORAGE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

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

DEGRADATION; FATTY ACIDS; PH; PLANT RESIDUES; VOC; WASTES;

GADUS MORHUA; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 9944258568     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2004.06.027     Document Type: Article

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