Anaerobic digestion of fruit and vegetable processing wastes for biogas production

Viswanath, Prema; Devi, Silsia; Nand, Krishna

doi:10.1016/0960-8524(92)90117-g

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“…Details of the experimental procedure and associated process conditions are as stated in the past report [14].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Table 2 also agrees with Equation (2) following the values of 0.2822 lnγ and α + 0.5717 evaluated from the experimental results in Table 1. Furthermore, the derived model was validated by comparing the methane gas yield predicted by the model and that obtained from the experiment [14]. This was done using various analytical techniques.…”

Section: Model Validationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Experimental data obtained from research work [14] were used for this work. Computational analysis of the experimental data [14] shown in Table 1, gave rise to …”

Section: Model Formulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Range of HRT used: 10 -20 days. Mass of wastes used, treatment temperature, growth rate of microbes and other process conditions are as stated in the experimental technique [14].…”

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“…Successive addition of fruit and vegetable solid wastes on the performance of biogas digester shows that the digester was stable at a loading rate of 3.8 kg VS m −3 ·d −1 [14]. The researchers further observed that no noticeable changes in the rates and yields of biogas occurred as a result of minor manipulation in nutritional and operational parameters which practically helped in the functioning of the digester fed with different fruits (mango, pineapple, tomato, jack fruit, banana, and orange) and vegetable wastes for a considerably long time.…”

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Model for Assessment Evaluation of Methane Gas Yield Based on Hydraulic Retention Time during Fruit Wastes Biodigestion

Nwoye¹,

Ferdinand²,

Agatha³

et al. 2012

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This paper presents an assessment evaluation of methane gas yield using a derived model based on the hydraulic retention time (HRT) of the feed stock (waste fruits) undergoing biotreatment in the digester. The derived model; γ = e (3.5436 α + 2.0259) indicates an exponential relationship between methane yield and the HRT. Statistical analysis of the model-predicted and experimental gas methane yield for each value of HRT considered shows a standard error of 0.0081 and 0.0114% respectively. Furthermore, the correlation between methane yield and HRT as obtained from derived model and experimental results were evaluated as 0.9716 and 0.9709 respectively. Methane gas yield per unit HRT as obtained from derived model and experiment are 0.0196 and 0.0235 (m 3 ·kg −1 VS) days −1 respectively. Deviational analysis indicates that the maximum deviation of the model-predicted methane yield from the corresponding experimental value is less than 16%. It was also found that the validity of the model is rooted on the expression 0.2822 ln γ = α + 0.5717 where both sides of the expression are correspondingly approximately equal.

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“…Details of the experimental procedure and associated process conditions are as stated in the past report [14].…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Model Validationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Experimental data obtained from research work [14] were used for this work. Computational analysis of the experimental data [14] shown in Table 1, gave rise to …”

Section: Model Formulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Range of HRT used: 10 -20 days. Mass of wastes used, treatment temperature, growth rate of microbes and other process conditions are as stated in the experimental technique [14].…”

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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