Research Grant
[Cite as http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP150100304]Researchers: Prof Long Nghiem (Chief Investigator) Prof Pascal Perez (Chief Investigator) Prof Richard Stuetz (Chief Investigator) Dr Heriberto Bustamante (Partner Investigator) Dr Sudhir Murthy (Partner Investigator)
Brief description Analytics to predict anaerobic codigestion & downstream process performance. This project aims to develop management approaches to enable the use of anaerobic co-digestion — the conversion of organic wastes and wastewater sludge to biogas for electricity production. Anaerobic co-digestion has the potential to bring significant economic savings to water stakeholders and environmental benefits to communities. However, full-scale deployment faces fundamental challenges in terms of managing impacts on downstream processes (e.g. odour, dewaterability, biogas quality, and nutrient build-up). The analytical framework and analytics tool to be developed in this project by an interdisciplinary team with expertise in process engineering, biochemistry, analytical chemistry and analytics, is expected to enable water stakeholders to cost-effectively manage these impacts and thus realise the benefits of co-digestion.
Funding Amount $470,000
Funding Scheme Linkage Projects
Prof William Price
local : prof_william_price
- ARC : LP150100304
- PURL : http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP150100304
