MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF AN INTEGRATED BIOREACTOR FOR ANAEROBIC DIGESTION

Abstract

The greatest issues that the world is facing today are recent problematic nature of Bioreactors failures Anaerobic Digestion (AD) for methane gas production in both domestic and commercial usages and have opened up the new concepts filling the gap in reestablishing the technology by Modeling Bioreactors for Profitability, Engineering Waste management and Energy Crisis. Most of these problems can be overcome by Mathematical Modeling of Anaerobic Digestion (AD). Because of the growing need of Anaerobic Digestion (AD) of solid waste, increased efforts in reducing Biogas Plant Design cost, Process Operation is crucial and one way of achieving is by employing Modified Gompertz Mathematical Modeling of the Anaerobic Process on a Test Rig of Coupled Bioreactors. It is expected that the incorporation of appropriate flow features in Bioreactor Design would provide the basis of effective digestion of organic waste leading to high yield in Performance with high Biogas Production. Consequently, a test rig of coupled bioreactors constructed was employed for the Gompertz Mathematical Modeling of Anaerobic Digestion (AD) while applying the resulting First Order Kinetic Constant Equation based on a Modified Fenton's First Order Model Equation which showed a good agreement with the working performance as characterizes in the Mathematical Modeling of an Integrated Bioreactor.