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Weber S. Modeling key intermediates during anaerobic digestion of lipid rich kitchen waste with an extended ADM1. Biodegradation 2024:10.1007/s10532-024-10072-7. [PMID: 38523174 DOI: 10.1007/s10532-024-10072-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2023] [Accepted: 01/18/2024] [Indexed: 03/26/2024]
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Quantitative dynamics of the key intermediates, gases and carbohydrates during anaerobic digestion of different lipid rich kitchen waste and lipid rich model kitchen waste were modeled. Six batch reactors loaded with 25 gVS l- 1 ( ∼ 39 g O 2 l- 1 ) kitchen waste and model kitchen waste during a batch experiment were considered in simulation. Observed dynamics of carbohydrates, volatile organic acids and gases were described by an extended benchmark simulation model no. 2 (BSM2). In this study the extended BSM2 included a more detailed β -oxidation for prediction of caproic acid. Furthermore, the extensions included carbohydrate digestion with an additional intermediate before propionic acid was released. In addition, a novel simplification approach for initial pH estimation was successfully applied. For parameter estimation a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method was used to obtain parameter distributions. With the presented model it was possible even with no calibrated data to predict point of times of intermediates maxima and propionic acid with relative stable concentration over several days for kitchen waste.
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- Simon Weber
- Biofactory Competence Center, Passage du Cardinal 13b, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland.
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Li L, Cai C, Chen Y, Liu H, Liu R, Yang D, Dong B, Dai X. Secondary acidogenic fermentation of waste activated sludge via voltage supplementation: Insights from sludge structure and enzymes activity. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 797:149161. [PMID: 34303972 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2021] [Revised: 07/15/2021] [Accepted: 07/16/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Microbial electrolysis cells were integrated with the anaerobic digestion at different fermentation stage (0th day and 30th day) to explore the bio-electrochemical enhancement of acidogenic fermentation from waste activated sludge. Results showed that significant increases in volatile fatty acid production can be achieved by electrically-assisted acidogenic fermentation (0th day to 12th day). In comparison, volatile fatty acid production during secondary acidogenic fermentation (30th day to 42nd day) via voltage supplementation was also investigated. The concentrations of soluble total organic carbon, soluble protein, soluble polysaccharide via voltage supplementation during the secondary acidogenic fermentation process were improved from 69.9, 50.3, and 18.8 mg/L to 260.6, 135.6, and 43.8 mg/L, respectively. Meanwhile, fractal dimension (Df) value was decreased via voltage supplementation along with the significantly improving of protease and α-glucosidase activities. These results suggest that the presence of voltage brought a secondary solubilization and hydrolysis of sludge via loosening sludge structure and promoting corresponding enzymes activities, thus improved the secondary acidogenic fermentation performance of sludge.
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- Lei Li
- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, PR China; Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai 200092, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, PR China; Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai 200092, PR China.
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Chen S, Dai X, Yang D, Dong B. Effects of sludge age on anaerobic acidification of waste activated sludge: Volatile fatty acids production and phosphorus release. J Environ Sci (China) 2021; 105:11-21. [PMID: 34130828 DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2020.12.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2020] [Revised: 12/22/2020] [Accepted: 12/24/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Effects of sludge age on volatile fatty acids (VFAs) production and Phosphorus (P) release during anaerobic acidification of waste activated sludge (WAS) were investigated. Sequencing batch reactors (SBR) fed with simulating domestic sewage were applied to produce WAS of different sludge ages, and batch tests were used for anaerobic acidification. The maximum dissolved total organic carbon, release of PO43+-P, and accumulation of acetate (C2), propionate (C3), butyrate (C4), and valerate (C5) decreased by 56.2%, 55.8%, 52.6%, 43.7%, 82.4% and 84.8%, respectively, as the sludge age of WAS increased from 5 to 40 days. Limited degradation of protein played a dominating role in decreasing DTOC and VFAs production. Moreover, the increase in molecular weight of organics and organic nitrogen content in the supernatant after acidification suggested that the refractory protein in WAS increased as sludge age extended. Although the production of C2, C3, C4, and C5 from WAS decreased as the sludge age increased, the proportions of C2 and C3 in VFAs increased, which might be due to the declined production of C5 from protein and the faded genus Dechlorobacter. Keeping sludge age of WAS at a relatively low level (<10 days) is more appropriate for anaerobic acidification of WAS as internal carbon sources and P resource.
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- Sisi Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
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Giménez-Lorang A, Vázquez-Padín JR, Dorado-Barragán C, Sánchez-Santos G, Vila-Armadas S, Flotats-Ripoll X. Treatment of the Supernatant of Anaerobically Digested Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste in a Demo-Scale Mesophilic External Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2021; 9:642747. [PMID: 33912547 PMCID: PMC8072359 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2021.642747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Conventional aerobic biological treatments of digested organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) slurries-usually conventional activated sludge or aerobic membrane bioreactor (AeMBR)-are inefficient in terms of energy and economically costly because of the high aeration requirements and the high amount of produced sludge. In this study, the supernatant obtained after the anaerobic digestion of OFMSW was treated in a mesophilic demo-scale anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) at cross flow velocities (CFVs) between 1 and 3.5 m⋅s-1. The aim was to determine the process performance of the system with an external ultrafiltration unit, in terms of organic matter removal and sludge filterability. In previous anaerobic continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) tests, without ultrafiltration, specific gas production between 40 and 83 NL CH4⋅kg-1 chemical oxygen demand (COD) fed and removals in the range of 10-20% total COD (tCOD) or 59-77% soluble COD (sCOD) were obtained, for organic loading rates (OLR) between 1.7 and 4.4 kg COD⋅m-3 reactor d-1. Data helped to identify a simplified model with the aim of understanding and expressing the process performance. Methane content in biogas was in the range of 74-77% v:v. In the AnMBR configuration, the COD removal has been in the ranges of 15.6-38.5 and 61.3-70.4% for total and sCOD, respectively, with a positive correlation between solids retention time (SRT, ranging from 7.3 to 24.3 days) and tCOD removal. The constant used in the model expressing inhibition, attributable to the high nitrogen content (3.6 ± 1.0 g N-NH4 +⋅L-1), indicated that this inhibition decreased when SRT increased, explaining values measured for volatile fatty acids concentration, which decreased when SRT increased and OLR, measured per unit of volatile suspended solids in the reactor, decreased. The alkalinity was high enough to allow a stable process throughout the experiments. Constant CFV operation resulted in excessive fouling and sudden trans-membrane pressure (TMP) increases. Nevertheless, an ultrafiltration regime based on alternation of CFV (20 min with a certain CFVi and then 5 min at CFVi + 1 m⋅s-1) allowed the membranes to filter at a flux (standardized at 20°C temperature) ranging from 2.8 to 7.3 L⋅m-2⋅h-1, over 331 days of operation, even at very high suspended solids concentrations (>30 g total suspended solids⋅L-1) in the reactor sludge. This flux range confirms that fouling is the main issue that can limit the spread of AnMBR potential for the studied stream. No clear correlation was found between CFV or SRT vs. fouling rate, in terms of either TMP⋅time-1 or permeability⋅time-1. As part of the demo-scale study, other operational limitations were observed: irreversible fouling, scaling (in the form of struvite deposition), ragging, and sludging. Because ragging and sludging were also observed in the existing AeMBR, it can be stated that both are attributable to the stream and to the difficulty of removing existing fibers. All the mentioned phenomena could have contributed to the high data dispersion of experimental results.
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- Direction of Prevention and Management Services of Área Metropolitana de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Direction of Prevention and Management Services of Área Metropolitana de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- GIRO Joint Research Unit IRTA-UPC, Department of Agrifood Engineering and Biotechnology, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya UPC-BarcelonaTECH, Barcelona, Spain
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Pastor-Poquet V, Papirio S, Harmand J, Steyer JP, Trably E, Escudié R, Esposito G. Assessing practical identifiability during calibration and cross-validation of a structured model for high-solids anaerobic digestion. WATER RESEARCH 2019; 164:114932. [PMID: 31400592 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.114932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2019] [Revised: 07/11/2019] [Accepted: 07/29/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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High-solids anaerobic digestion (HS-AD) of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) is operated at a total solid (TS) content ≥ 10% to enhance the waste treatment economy, though it might be associated to free ammonia (NH3) inhibition. This study aimed to calibrate and cross-validate a HS-AD model for homogenized reactors in order to assess the effects of high NH3 levels in HS-AD of OFMSW, but also to evaluate the suitability of the reversible non-competitive inhibition function to reproduce the effect of NH3 on the main acetogenic and methanogenic populations. The practical identifiability of structural/biochemical parameters (i.e. 35) and initial conditions (i.e. 32) was evaluated using batch experiments at different TS and/or inoculum-to-substrate ratios. Variance-based global sensitivity analysis and approximate Bayesian computation were used for parameter optimization. The experimental data in this study permitted to estimate up to 8 biochemical parameters, whereas the rest of parameters and biomass contents were poorly identifiable. The study also showed the relatively high levels of NH3 (i.e. up to 2.3 g N/L) and ionic strength (i.e. up to 0.9 M) when increasing TS in HS-AD of OFMSW. However, the NH3 non-competitive function was unable to capture the acetogenic/methanogenic inhibition. Therefore, the calibration emphasized the need for target-oriented experimental data to enhance the practical identifiability and the predictive capabilities of structured HS-AD models, but also the need for further testing the NH3 inhibition function used in these simulations.
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- Vicente Pastor-Poquet
- Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, via Di Biasio 43, 03043, Cassino, FR, Italy; LBE, Univ. Montpellier, INRA, 102 Avenue des Etangs, 11100, Narbonne, France.
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- Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Napoli Federico II, via Claudio 21, 80125, Napoli, Italy
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- LBE, Univ. Montpellier, INRA, 102 Avenue des Etangs, 11100, Narbonne, France
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- LBE, Univ. Montpellier, INRA, 102 Avenue des Etangs, 11100, Narbonne, France
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- LBE, Univ. Montpellier, INRA, 102 Avenue des Etangs, 11100, Narbonne, France
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- Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Napoli Federico II, via Claudio 21, 80125, Napoli, Italy
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Pastor-Poquet V, Papirio S, Steyer JP, Trably E, Escudié R, Esposito G. Modelling non-ideal bio-physical-chemical effects on high-solids anaerobic digestion of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2019; 238:408-419. [PMID: 30870673 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2018] [Revised: 02/16/2019] [Accepted: 03/03/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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This study evaluates the main effects of including 'non-ideal' bio-physical-chemical corrections in high-solids anaerobic digestion (HS-AD) of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW), at total solid (TS) between 10 and 40%. As a novel approach, a simple 'non-ideal' module, accounting for the effects of ionic strength (I) on the main acid-base equilibriums, was coupled to a HS-AD model, to jointly evaluate the effects of 'non-ideality' and the TS content dynamics on the HS-AD bio-physical-chemistry. 'Non-ideality' influenced the pH, concentration of inhibitors (i.e. NH3), and liquid-gas transfer (i.e. CO2), particularly at higher TS (i.e. ≥ 20%). Meanwhile, fitting the experimental data for batch assays at 15% TS showed that HS-AD of OFMSW might be operated at I ≥ 0.5 M. Therefore, all HS-AD simulations should account for 'non-ideal' corrections, when assessing the main inhibitory mechanisms (i.e. NH3 buildup and acidification) potentially occurring in HS-AD of OFMSW.
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- Vicente Pastor-Poquet
- Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, via Di Biasio 43, 03043, Cassino, FR, Italy; LBE, Univ Montpellier, INRA, 102 avenue des Etangs, 11100, Narbonne, France.
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- Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Napoli Federico II, via Claudio 21, 80125, Napoli, Italy
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- LBE, Univ Montpellier, INRA, 102 avenue des Etangs, 11100, Narbonne, France
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- LBE, Univ Montpellier, INRA, 102 avenue des Etangs, 11100, Narbonne, France
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- Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, via Di Biasio 43, 03043, Cassino, FR, Italy
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Madani-Hosseini M, Mulligan CN, Barrington S. Microbial kinetic for In-Storage-Psychrophilic Anaerobic Digestion (ISPAD). JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2014; 146:59-68. [PMID: 25156266 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.07.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2014] [Revised: 07/21/2014] [Accepted: 07/22/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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In-Storage-Psychrophilic-Anaerobic-Digestion (ISPAD) is a wastewater storage tank converted into an anaerobic digestion (AD) system by means of an airtight floating geo-membrane. For process optimization, ISPAD requires modelling with well-established microbial kinetics coefficients. The present objectives were to: obtain kinetics coefficients for the modelling of ISPAD; compare the prediction of the conventional and decomposition fitting approach, an innovative fitting technique used in other fields of science, and; obtain equations to predict the maximum growth rate (μmax) of microbial communities as a function of temperature. The method consisted in conducting specific Substrate Activity Tests (SAT) using ISPAD inoculum to monitor the rate of degradation of specific substrates at 8, 18 and 35 °C. Microbial kinetics coefficients were obtained by fitting the Monod equations to SAT. The statistical procedure of Least Square Error analysis was used to minimize the Sum of Squared Errors (SSE) between the measured ISPAD experimental data and the Monod equation values. Comparing both fitting methods, the decomposition approach gave higher correlation coefficient (R) for most kinetics values, as compared to the conventional approach. Tested to predict μmax with temperature, the Square Root equation better predicted temperature dependency of both acidogens and propionate degrading acetogens, while the Arrhenius equation better predicted that of methanogens and butyrate degrading acetogens. Increasing temperature from 18 to 35 °C did not affect butyrate degrading acetogens, likely because of their dominance, as demonstrated by microbial population estimation. The estimated ISPAD kinetics coefficients suggest a robust psychrophilic and mesophilic coexisting microbial community demonstrating acclimation to ambient temperature.
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- Mahsa Madani-Hosseini
- Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve, Montréal H3G 1M8, Canada
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- Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve, Montréal H3G 1M8, Canada
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- Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve, Montréal H3G 1M8, Canada.
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Donoso-Bravo A, Mailier J, Martin C, Rodríguez J, Aceves-Lara CA, Vande Wouwer A. Model selection, identification and validation in anaerobic digestion: a review. WATER RESEARCH 2011; 45:5347-64. [PMID: 21920578 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.08.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2011] [Revised: 08/26/2011] [Accepted: 08/29/2011] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Anaerobic digestion enables waste (water) treatment and energy production in the form of biogas. The successful implementation of this process has lead to an increasing interest worldwide. However, anaerobic digestion is a complex biological process, where hundreds of microbial populations are involved, and whose start-up and operation are delicate issues. In order to better understand the process dynamics and to optimize the operating conditions, the availability of dynamic models is of paramount importance. Such models have to be inferred from prior knowledge and experimental data collected from real plants. Modeling and parameter identification are vast subjects, offering a realm of approaches and methods, which can be difficult to fully understand by scientists and engineers dedicated to the plant operation and improvements. This review article discusses existing modeling frameworks and methodologies for parameter estimation and model validation in the field of anaerobic digestion processes. The point of view is pragmatic, intentionally focusing on simple but efficient methods.
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Donoso-Bravo A, García G, Pérez-Elvira S, Fdz-Polanco F. Initial rates technique as a procedure to predict the anaerobic digester operation. Biochem Eng J 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2010.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Liu D, Zeng RJ, Angelidaki I. Effects of pH and hydraulic retention time on hydrogen production versus methanogenesis during anaerobic fermentation of organic household solid waste under extreme-thermophilic temperature (70°C). Biotechnol Bioeng 2008; 100:1108-14. [DOI: 10.1002/bit.21834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Leistritz L, Suesse T, Haueisen J, Hilgenfeld B, Witte H. Methods for parameter identification in oscillatory networks and application to cortical and thalamic 600 Hz activity. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 99:58-65. [PMID: 16039101 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphysparis.2005.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Directed information transfer in the human brain occurs presumably by oscillations. As of yet, most approaches for the analysis of these oscillations are based on time-frequency or coherence analysis. The present work concerns the modeling of cortical 600 Hz oscillations, localized within the Brodmann Areas 3b and 1 after stimulation of the nervus medianus, by means of coupled differential equations. This approach leads to the so-called parameter identification problem, where based on a given data set, a set of unknown parameters of a system of ordinary differential equations is determined by special optimization procedures. Some suitable algorithms for this task are presented in this paper. Finally an oscillatory network model is optimally fitted to the data taken from ten volunteers.
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- L Leistritz
- Institute of Medical Statistics, Computer Sciences and Documentation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Bachstr. 18, D-07740 Jena, Germany.
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