Pilot-scale Biogas Plant for the Research and Development of New Technologies

Тhe paper describes a new pilot-scale biogas plant of the Institute of Microbiology - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The equipment includes: a 100 L pilot bioreactor, a 200 L metal gasholder, sensors, actuators, a two-level automatic process monitoring and control system, a fire and explosion protec...

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Published inBioautomation Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 187 - 202
Main Authors Simeonov, Ivan, Boyko Kalchev, Mihaylova, Snezhanka, Hubenov, Venelin, Aleksandrov, Anatoliy, Georgiev, Rashko, Christov, Nicolai
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Sophia Bulgarska Akademiya na Naukite / Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 2012
Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Subjects
Biogas
Life Sciences
Microbiology and Parasitology
Monitoring and control system
Parameter identification
Sensors
Biogas
AD
Sensors
Monitoring and control system
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Summary:Тhe paper describes a new pilot-scale biogas plant of the Institute of Microbiology - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The equipment includes: a 100 L pilot bioreactor, a 200 L metal gasholder, sensors, actuators, a two-level automatic process monitoring and control system, a fire and explosion protection system and two web cameras. The monitoring and control system is composed on the lower level of a controller Beckhoff, and on the higher level - of a PC with specialized software (under development). The pilot biogas plant is designed to work out and scale up various anaerobic digestion (AD) technologies based on different types of feedstock. All the data will be stored on the PC for quick reference and possibly data mining, parameter identification and verification of different AD mathematical models.
ISSN:1314-1902
1314-2321
1314-2321
1314-1902