Authors: Jawed Mohammad Tare Vinod
Publish Date: 1996/09/01
Volume: 34, Issue: 5-6, Pages: 483-487
Abstract
This paper presents correlation of methanogenic activity with performance of bench scale models of UASB DSFF and USFF reactors at varying OLRs while maintaining EBHRT in the range of 080110 d At lower OLR performance of the reactors appears to be similar However at higher OLR the performance of DSFF and USFF reactors is fairly steady whereas UASB reactor shows poor performance in terms of methane production This is in conformity with methanogenic activity test results The results of AMA and TMA tests also reveal that at higher OLR acetoclastic methanogens population decreases considerably in UASB reactor and a large fraction of methane is produced due to the activity of nonacetoclastic methanogens
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