(1) CEIT and TECNUN. Pº de Manuel Lardizabal 15, 20018 San Sebastian - Spain
(2) Department of Water Management, Section Sanitary Engineering, Delft University of Technology, PO Box 5048, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands
(3) VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, Kaitoväylä 1, Oulu, P.O. Box 1100, FI-90571 Oulu, Finland
for efficient production of VFA and biogas in anaerobic digesters
Irizar
I.
(1),
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merich
E.
(1), Esteban
M.
(1),Zhang X.
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(2), Paaso
J.
(3)and Rahkamaa-T
olonen
K.
(3)Progress in Biogas III, Stuttgart – Germany
10-11 September 2014
Novel monitoring and process control system
OPTI-VFA is a European research project recently started (01/09/2013) with the central aim being to develop a low-cost industrial measurement system for real-time monitoring of Volatile Fatty Acids (VFA) in anaerobic digestion plants. These probes will play a primary role in the second objective of the project, namely the design and implementation of an advanced control strategy that automatically guarantees plant stability while optimizing their performance according to different operational goals, i.e. maximizing biogas production, maximizing VFA production, etc.
