Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP150100304

Funded Activity Summary

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.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 16-06-2016

End Date: 31-12-2020

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $470,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Chemical Engineering | Wastewater Treatment Processes | Environmental Technologies | Environmental Engineering Modelling

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Renewable Energy not elsewhere classified | Waste Management Services | Water Services and Utilities |

Other Keywords

Chemical Engineering | Environmental Engineering Modelling | Environmental Technologies | Renewable Energy not elsewhere classified | Waste Management Services | Wastewater Treatment Processes | Water Services and Utilities

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