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Biokinetics of Anaerobic Digestion of Municipal Waste
No full textA study of the biokinetics of anaerobic digestion of municipal solid
waste (MSW) was carried out using anaerobic batch digester. From the
experimental results, the kinetic parameters (coefficient values) of
the digestion of the MSW were determined. The maximum rate of substrate
utilization (K), saturation constant (Ks), endogenous decay coefficient
(Kd), biomass Yield or microbial growth yield (Y) and maximum specific
growth rate (μmax) were found to be 0.144 day -1, 21.23 mg/L,
0.038 day -1, 0.367, and 0.053 day -1 respectively. These values
indicate that practical digesters for MSW will require inoculation of
the feed with microorganism to increase the rate of digestion. The
biokinetics of anaerobic digestion of MSW was well described by first
order kinetic model
