Modeling microbiological and chemical processes in municipal solid waste bioreactor, part I: Development of a three-phase numerical model BIOKEMOD-3P

    Authors

    N. A. Gawande; D. R. Reinhart;G. T. Yeh

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Waste Manage.

    Keywords

    ANAEROBIC-DIGESTION; MATHEMATICAL-MODEL; SANITARY LANDFILLS; TRANSPORT; GAS; DEGRADATION; GENERATION; SIMULATION; STRENGTH; HEAT; Engineering, Environmental; Environmental Sciences

    Abstract

    The numerical computer models that simulate municipal solid waste (MSW) bioreactor landfills have mainly two components - a biodegradation process module and a multi-phase flow module. The biodegradation model describes the chemical and microbiological processes. The models available to date include predefined solid waste biodegradation reactions and participating species. Some of these models allow changing the basic composition of solid waste. In a bioreactor landfill several processes like anaerobic and aerobic solids biodegradation, nitrogen and sulfate related processes, precipitation and dissolution of metals, and adsorption and gasification of various anthropogenic organic compounds occur simultaneously. These processes may involve reactions of several species and the available biochemical models for solid waste biodegradation do not provide users with the flexibility to simulate these processes by choice. This paper presents the development of a generalized biochemical process model BIO-KEMOD-3P which can accommodate a large number of species and process reactions. This model is able to simulate bioreactor landfill operation in a completely mixed condition, when coupled with a multi-phase model it will be able to simulate a full-scale bioreactor landfill. This generalized biochemical model can simulate laboratory and pilot-scale operations in order to determine biochemical parameters important for simulation of full-scale operations. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

    Journal Title

    Waste Management

    Volume

    30

    Issue/Number

    2

    Publication Date

    1-1-2010

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    202

    Last Page

    210

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000273130000005

    ISSN

    0956-053X

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