Title
Modeling microbiological and chemical processes in municipal solid waste bioreactor, part I: Development of a three-phase numerical model BIOKEMOD-3P
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
ISSN
0956-053X
Recommended Citation
"Modeling microbiological and chemical processes in municipal solid waste bioreactor, part I: Development of a three-phase numerical model BIOKEMOD-3P" (2010). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 168.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/168
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