Anaerobic Digestion Fundamentals, Modelling, and Applications

Anaerobic digestion is a core technology for sustainable waste(water) management and renewable energy recovery from waste sources. This book introduces and brings readers up to date with anaerobic digestion and its applications. It refreshes readers on the fundamentals of anaerobic digestion processes for normal and stressed scenarios, introduces techniques for stable system operation and predication, and explains the innovation in technology applications for waste valorization.

By providing scientific and engineering fundamentals, the book equips professionals with the knowledge of knowing why and how to solve the problems in the application of anaerobic digestion.

History and future development.- Metabolic principles substrate, electron, energy, and communication.- Cross feeding syntrophy, amino acids, vitamins, trace elements.- hermodynamic mechanisms.- Ecological mechanisms 3R and the r/K selection theory.- Inhibition principles: basic mechanisms and the CSR theory.- Inhibition of free ammonia and its alleviation.- Inhibition of sulfate and its alleviation.- Inhibition of antibiotics and its alleviation.- Modelling principles Kinetics stoichiometry mass balance etc.- Modelling with the conventional ADM1.- Modelling with the thermodynamic method.- Modelling with the genome-based method.- Bioreactor principles low-rate and high-rate bioreactors.- Anaerobic membrane bioreactor for wastewater treatment.- Anaerobic treatment of dye wastewater.- Anaerobic biodegradation of organic arsenic.

Dr. Guangxue Wu is a University Galway Foundation supported Associate Professor in Civil Engineering, University of Galway. He received his PhD degree from National University of Ireland, Galway in 2009. He is expertized in biological wastewater treatment, including anaerobic digestion, autotrophic nitrogen removal, and sustainable development. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal papers. He was the convener for the ISO standard: Water reuse in urban areas — Guidelines for centralized water reuse system — Part 1: Design principle of a centralized water reuse system (ISO 20760-1: 2018) and received the ISO excellence award in June 2020 in recognition of his valuable contribution.