Optimizing Anaerobic Digestion for Increased Performance and Biogas Production

Water Environment Association of Ontario’s Influents Magazine – Fall 2011
By Dr. Bill Barber

Barber discusses the place of anaerobic digestion in the water industry; how facilities are upgrading to include cogeneration to generate electricity and heat. Barber delves into how certain methods can be looked on to optimize performance such as ‘black-box’ technologies, adjusting the number of parameters, and presents a model based on actual plant performance and bacteriological kinetics to quantify the influence of a number of possible parameters. More (pdf)