Nordberg, Åke
- Department of Energy and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
Anaerobic digestion is today internationally acknowledged as an environmentally sound process for energy and nutrient recovery from organic wastes, and it is the dominant sludge treatment technology in most countries' wastewater treatment plants. Laboratory- or pilot-scale experiments are commonly used as a first step to investigate the potential of new ideas or to confirm research hypothesis before confirmation in full-scale. The objectives of this study were to investigate transferability of methane yield assessments between laboratory-and full-scale, and to compare the influence of experimental uncertainties on experimental power in parallel continuous digester experiments for the two scales. Both batch experiment data (used in a simple equation), as well as continuous laboratory experiments, could be used to predict full-scale methane yield with a high accuracy (
Keywords
anaerobic digestion; full-scale; laboratory-scale; sewage sludge; transferability
Published in
Water Science and Technology
2017, volume: 76, number: 4, pages: 983-991
Publisher: IWA PUBLISHING
SLU Authors
Global goals (SDG)
SDG6 Clean water and sanitation
UKÄ Subject classification
Bioprocess Technology
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2017.290
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/86831