Analytics to predict anaerobic codigestion & downstream process performance

该项目旨在制定管理办法，以便能够利用厌氧共消化-将有机废物和废水污泥转化为沼气用于发电。厌氧共消化有可能为水资源利益攸关方带来显著的经济节约，并为社区带来环境效益。然而，全面部署在管理对下游过程的影响方面面临着根本性的挑战（例如气味、脱水性、沼气质量和养分积累）。该项目中的分析框架和分析工具将由一个具有工艺工程、生物化学、分析化学和分析专业知识的跨学科团队开发，预计将使水资源利益相关者能够以成本效益高的方式管理这些影响，从而实现共同消化的好处。

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.