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Raúl Rodríguez-Gómez1, Gunno Renman, Luis Moreno
1Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), 100 44, Teknikringen 42, Stockholm, Sweden, raulr@kth.se.
Abstract:
A dynamic model to describe the performance of the Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) reactor was developed. It includes dispersion, advection, and reaction terms, as well as the resistances through which the substrate passes before its biotransformation. The UASB reactor is viewed as several continuous stirred tank reactors connected in series. The good agreement between experimental and simulated results shows that the model is able to predict the performance of the UASB reactor (i.e. substrate concentration, biomass concentration, granule size, and height of the sludge bed).
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