A Computer Program for Modeling the Conversion of Organic Waste to Energy
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Date
2011
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MDPI Open access publisher
Abstract
This paper presents a tool for the analysis of conversion of organic waste into energy. The tool is a program that uses waste characterization parameters and mass flow rates at each stage of the waste treatment process to predict the given products. The specific waste treatment process analysed in this paper is anaerobic digestion. The different waste treatment stages of the anaerobic digestion process are: conditioning of input waste, secondary treatment, drying of sludge, conditioning of digestate, treatment of digestate, storage of liquid and solid effluent, disposal of liquid and solid effluents, purification, utilization and storage of combustible gas. The program uses mass balance equations to compute the amount of CH4, NH3, CO2 and H2S produced from anaerobic digestion of organic waste, and hence the energy available. Case studies are also presented.
Description
This paper presents a tool for the analysis of conversion of organic waste into energy
Keywords
Municipal solid waste, Organic waste energy, Biochemical and physico-chemical processes
Citation
Namuli Rachel, Laflamme Claude B., and Pillay Pragasen. A Computer Program for Modeling the Conversion of Organic Waste to Energy. Energies journal, MDPI Publishers 2011, Vol. 4, pp. 1973-2001; ISSN 1996-1073 doi:10.3390/en4111973