Pilot-scale application of an online VFA sensor for monitoring and control of a manure digester

K Boe, I Angelidaki - Water Science and Technology, 2012 - iwaponline.com
A volatile fatty acids (VFA) sensor based on headspace chromatography was tested for
online monitoring and control of a pilot-scale manure digester. The sensor showed satisfying …

A hybrid cascade control scheme for the VFA and COD regulation in two-stage anaerobic digestion processes

HO Méndez-Acosta, A Campos-Rodríguez… - Bioresource …, 2016 - Elsevier
A hybrid (continuous–discrete) cascade control is proposed to regulate both, volatile fatty
acids (VFA) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) concentrations in two-stage (acidogenic …

Transflexive embedded near infrared monitoring for key process intermediates in anaerobic digestion/biogas production

JB Holm-Nielsen, H Andree, H Lindorfer… - Journal of Near …, 2007 - opg.optica.org
This work reports an off-line method development simulating at-line anaerobic co-digestion
process monitoring using a new transflexive embedded near infrared sensor (TENIRS) …

Control structure design for resource recovery using the enhanced biological phosphorus removal and recovery (EBP2R) activated sludge process

B Valverde-Pérez, JM Fuentes-Martínez… - Chemical Engineering …, 2016 - Elsevier
Nowadays, wastewater is considered as a set of resources to be recovered rather than a
mixture of pollutants that should be removed. Many resource recovery schemes have been …

Regulation of volatile fatty acids and total alkalinity in anaerobic digesters

B Palacios-Ruiz, HO Méndez-Acosta… - IFAC Proceedings …, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper deals with the simultaneous regulation of volatile fatty acids (VFA's) and total
alkalinity (TA) in anaerobic digesters. The control scheme is conformed by an output …

An optimizing start-up strategy for a bio-methanator

M Sbarciog, M Loccufier, A Vande Wouwer - Bioprocess and biosystems …, 2012 - Springer
This paper presents an optimizing start-up strategy for a bio-methanator. The goal of the
control strategy is to maximize the outflow rate of methane in anaerobic digestion processes …

Monitoring anaerobic sequential batch reactors via fractal analysis of pH time series

HO Méndez‐Acosta… - Biotechnology and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient monitoring and control schemes are mandatory in the current operation of biological
wastewater treatment plants because they must accomplish more demanding environmental …

Resolving stability issue of thermophilic high-rate anaerobic palm oil mill effluent treatment via adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system predictive model

HM Tan, PE Poh, D Gouwanda - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
Palm oil mill effluent is a highly polluting and corrosive liquid waste generated from crude
palm oil processing. Its varying characteristics depending on the crop season and loading …

Ammonium estimation in an ANAMMOX SBR treating anaerobically digested domestic wastewater

MV De Lille, V Berkhout, L Fröba, F Groß… - Chemical Engineering …, 2015 - Elsevier
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) were used to estimate from online pH-measurements the
ammonium concentration in an anaerobic ammonium oxidation (ANAMMOX) sequencing …

Modélisation et observation des bioprocédés à membranes: application à la digestion anaérobie

B Benyahia - 2012 - theses.hal.science
Cette thèse porte sur la modélisation des réacteurs membranaires anaérobies. Dans une
première partie, nous proposons une analyse mathématique générique d'un modèle de …