Monitoring and control of anaerobic reactors

PF Pind, I Angelidaki, BK Ahring, K Stamatelatou… - Biomethanation II, 2003 - Springer
The current status in monitoring and control of anaerobic reactors is reviewed. The influence
of reactor design and waste composition on the possible monitoring and control schemes is …

Review of the applications of neural networks in chemical process control—simulation and online implementation

MA Hussain - Artificial intelligence in engineering, 1999 - Elsevier
As a result of good modeling capabilities, neural networks have been used extensively for a
number of chemical engineering applications such as sensor data analysis, fault detection …

A method to determine the required number of neural-network training repetitions

MS Iyer, RR Rhinehart - IEEE Transactions on Neural …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conventional neural-network training algorithms often get stuck in local minima. To find the
global optimum, training is conventionally repeated with ten, or so, random starting values …

Neural fuzzy modeling of anaerobic biological wastewater treatment systems

JH Tay, X Zhang - Journal of Environmental engineering, 1999 - ascelibrary.org
Anaerobic biological wastewater treatment systems are difficult to model because their
performance is complex and varies significantly with different reactor configurations, influent …

New perspectives for Paulownia fortunei L. valorisation of the autohydrolysis and pulping processes

S Caparrós, MJ Díaz, J Ariza, F López, L Jiménez - Bioresource technology, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper will consider the influence of the temperature of autohydrolysis or hydrothermal
process from Paulownia fortunei L. to obtain a valuable liquid phase and a suitable solid …

Neural network modeling for on-line estimation of nutrient dynamics in a sequentially-operated batch reactor

DS Lee, JM Park - Journal of Biotechnology, 1999 - Elsevier
In monitoring and controlling wastewater treatment processes, on-line information of nutrient
dynamics is very important. However, these variables are determined with a significant time …

Experiments and ANFIS modelling for the biodegradation of penicillin-G wastewater using anaerobic hybrid reactor

P Mullai, S Arulselvi, HH Ngo, PL Sabarathinam - Bioresource technology, 2011 - Elsevier
The performance of an anaerobic hybrid reactor (AHR) for treating penicillin-G wastewater
was investigated at the ambient temperatures of 30–35° C for 245days in three phases. The …

On-line diagnosis and uncertainty management using evidence theory––experimental illustration to anaerobic digestion processes

L Lardon, A Punal, JP Steyer - Journal of Process Control, 2004 - Elsevier
The on-line diagnosis is a key requirement in biological processes. This is particularly true in
the case of wastewater treatment processes due to the composition of media, the …

Optimization of Paulownia Fortunei L. Autohydrolysis−Organosolv Pulping as a Source of Xylooligomers and Cellulose Pulp

S Caparrós, J Ariza, G Garrote, F López… - Industrial & engineering …, 2007 - ACS Publications
This paper will consider the influence of the autohydrolysis pretreatment on Paulownia
fortunei L. woods to obtain a liquid phase (which can be used as a commercial source of …

Ethyleneglycol pulp from tagasaste

L Jiménez, A Perez, MJ De la Torre, A Rodríguez… - Bioresource …, 2008 - Elsevier
In this work, we examined the influence of operational variables [viz. Ethyleneglycol
concentration (50–70%), temperature (155–185° C), time (30–90min) and number of PFI …