Calibration of the Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 (ADM1) for steady-state anaerobic co-digestion of municipal wastewater sludge with restaurant grease trap waste.

Abstract The Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1, implemented in the GPS-X computational simulator, was calibrated to simulate the steady state anaerobic co-digestion of municipal wastewater sludge and restaurant grease trap waste (GTW). Substrate characterizations combined with anaerobic respirometric analysis were applied for model calibration. Initial biomass concentrations and distributions were estimated using methane production rate curves together with effluent values from full-scale anaerobic digesters. Two separate datasets obtained from steady state mesophilic lab-scale experiments were used to calibrate and validate the model. The modified model was able to predict reasonably well the steady-state results of biogas production, CH 4 and CO 2 contents, pH, alkalinity, COD and VSS observed within the evaluated GTW loading. Finally, the calibrated model was validated using pilot-scale co-digestion results obtained during a previous study. The model output was in good agreement with measured values of methane production, pH, ammonia, alkalinity and COD.

[1]  F Cecchi,et al.  Application of the IWA ADM1 model to simulate anaerobic co-digestion of organic waste with waste activated sludge in mesophilic condition. , 2009, Bioresource technology.

[2]  Zhaobo Chen,et al.  Modeling of two-phase anaerobic process treating traditional Chinese medicine wastewater with the IWA Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1. , 2009, Bioresource technology.

[3]  Shahid Malik,et al.  Pilot scale anaerobic co-digestion of municipal wastewater sludge with biodiesel waste glycerin. , 2013, Bioresource technology.

[4]  M de Gracia,et al.  New generic mathematical model for WWTP sludge digesters operating under aerobic and anaerobic conditions: Model building and experimental verification. , 2009, Water research.

[5]  Jian Chen,et al.  Effects of organic matter and initial carbon–nitrogen ratio on the bioconversion of volatile fatty acids from sewage sludge , 2008 .

[6]  H. Siegrist,et al.  The IWA Anaerobic Digestion Model No 1 (ADM1). , 2002, Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research.

[7]  R Kleerebezem,et al.  Waste characterization for implementation in ADM1. , 2006, Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research.

[8]  I. Buchanan,et al.  Pilot-scale anaerobic co-digestion of municipal wastewater sludge with restaurant grease trap waste. , 2013, Journal of environmental management.

[9]  Irini Angelidaki,et al.  Anaerobic digestion model No. 1 (ADM1) , 2002 .

[10]  F. Blumensaat,et al.  Modelling of two-stage anaerobic digestion using the IWA Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 (ADM1). , 2005, Water research.

[11]  J P Steyer,et al.  Combination of batch experiments with continuous reactor data for ADM1 calibration: application to anaerobic digestion of pig slurry. , 2011, Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research.

[12]  Y Y Li,et al.  Modified ADM1 structure for modelling municipal primary sludge hydrolysis. , 2008, Water research.

[13]  J L García-Heras,et al.  Anaerobic digestion of seven different sewage sludges: a biodegradability and modelling study. , 2013, Water research.

[14]  Laurent Lardon,et al.  Modeling anaerobic digestion of microalgae using ADM1. , 2011, Bioresource technology.

[15]  A. E. Greenberg,et al.  Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater : supplement to the sixteenth edition , 1988 .

[16]  Q. Yuan,et al.  VFA generation from waste activated sludge: effect of temperature and mixing. , 2011, Chemosphere.

[17]  J. Steyer,et al.  A waste characterisation procedure for ADM1 implementation based on degradation kinetics. , 2012, Water research.

[18]  Joel J. Ducoste,et al.  Anaerobic co-digestion of fat, oil, and grease (FOG): a review of gas production and process limitations. , 2012 .

[19]  J M Lema,et al.  A methodology for optimising feed composition for anaerobic co-digestion of agro-industrial wastes. , 2010, Bioresource technology.

[20]  Dong-Hoon Kim,et al.  Continuous high-solids anaerobic co-digestion of organic solid wastes under mesophilic conditions. , 2011, Waste management.

[21]  Qiang He,et al.  Enhancing biomethanation of municipal waste sludge with grease trap waste as a co-substrate. , 2011 .

[22]  Fezzani Boubaker,et al.  Modelling of the mesophilic anaerobic co-digestion of olive mill wastewater with olive mill solid waste using anaerobic digestion model No. 1 (ADM1). , 2008, Bioresource technology.

[23]  J. Folch,et al.  A simple method for the isolation and purification of total lipides from animal tissues. , 1957, The Journal of biological chemistry.

[24]  J. Steyer,et al.  Modeling microbial diversity in anaerobic digestion through an extended ADM1 model. , 2009, Water research.

[25]  S. Grimberg,et al.  Modeling anaerobic digestion of dairy manure using the IWA Anaerobic Digestion Model no. 1 (ADM1). , 2008, Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research.

[26]  M de Gracia,et al.  Automatic characterisation of primary, secondary and mixed sludge inflow in terms of the mathematical generalised sludge digester model. , 2011, Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research.

[27]  J. Mata-Álvarez,et al.  Biomethanization of the Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Wastes , 2015 .

[28]  Boubaker Fezzani,et al.  Extension of the anaerobic digestion model No. 1 (ADM1) to include phenolic compounds biodegradation processes for the simulation of anaerobic co-digestion of olive mill wastes at thermophilic temperature. , 2009, Journal of hazardous materials.

[29]  J. Mata-Álvarez,et al.  Modified version of ADM1 model for agro-waste application. , 2009, Bioresource technology.

[30]  A Bonmatí,et al.  Biomass adaptation over anaerobic co-digestion of sewage sludge and trapped grease waste. , 2011, Bioresource technology.

[31]  C Gruvberger,et al.  Co-digestion of grease trap sludge and sewage sludge. , 2008, Waste management.

[32]  M. Sillanpää,et al.  Increased biogas production at wastewater treatment plants through co-digestion of sewage sludge with grease trap sludge from a meat processing plant. , 2009, Bioresource technology.