AD-WISE

Automated system based on on-line VFA sensors for an optimised control of anaerobic digestion plants

Coordinatore	AINIA    more  Organization address address: CALLE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 5-11 VALENCIA PARC TECNOLOGIC city: PATERNA postcode: 46980 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Daniel Cognome: Gonzalez Email: send email Telefono: 34961366090 Fax: 34961318008
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Spain [ES]
Totale costo	1˙257˙346 €
EC contributo	939˙000 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2012
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2012
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2012-09-01   -   2014-11-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	AINIA  Organization address address: CALLE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 5-11 VALENCIA PARC TECNOLOGIC city: PATERNA postcode: 46980 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Daniel Cognome: Gonzalez Email: send email Telefono: 34961366090 Fax: 34961318008	ES (PATERNA)	coordinator	25˙000.00
2	THE NATIONAL MICROELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS CENTRE LTD  Organization address address: "SUPARULE HOUSE, LONSDALE ROAD NATIONAL TECHNOLOGICY PARK" city: LIMERICK contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: John Cognome: O'flaherty Email: send email Telefono: 35361334699 Fax: 35361338500	IE (LIMERICK)	participant	385˙000.00
3	INTERSPECTRUM OU  Organization address address: RIIA STREET 185A city: TARTU postcode: 51014 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Teofilus Cognome: Tonnisson Email: send email Telefono: +37 27383008 Fax: +37 2 7383065	EE (TARTU)	participant	342˙000.00
4	S.A.T. N. 299 SAN RAMON  Organization address address: CALLE EMPARRADO 11 puerta BJ city: MISLATA postcode: 46920 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Mª Dolores Cognome: Ramos Herrero Email: send email Telefono: 34962338170 Fax: 34962338168	ES (MISLATA)	participant	179˙000.00
5	FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V  Organization address address: Hansastrasse 27C city: MUENCHEN postcode: 80686 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Christoph Cognome: Schulte Email: send email Telefono: +49 89 1205 2728 Fax: +49 89 1205 7534	DE (MUENCHEN)	participant	8˙000.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Anaerobic digestion is a biological process where the organic matter is degraded to form biogas and a digestate. Biogas can be fired in combined heat and power (CHP) engines or purified and injected into the gas grid. The total primary energy produced from biogas in Europe was 5.9 million toe in 2007, and there is still growing potential, since the white paper objective for 2010 is 15 million toe and there is a huge amount of organic waste available that is disposed without valorisation. Control and optimisation of AD plants is a key issue and one of the main research topics of this field. AD plants operators usually have to drive the plant with the only information of pH and biogas composition. This often leads to a situation of underuse of the plant, if the operator prefers to drive the plant in a conservative way, or process malfunction, if the operator chooses to drive the plant near the load limit. Out of all the parameters proposed to control the process, the more reliable is the volatile fatty acids profile (VFAP) that consists on the single VFA concentration (acetate, propionate, butyrate etc.). This parameter allows checking not only the process state but also predicting and avoiding process malfunction, what is not possible with other parameters (pH, biogas composition, etc.). With the information of VFAP, AD plants operators could optimise the plant, increase biogas production and avoid process stops. The currently available technique to measure VFAP is gas chromatography (GC): an off-line measurement that needs specific equipment and trained specialists, and takes 1-2 weeks between the sampling and the results, making the measurement no longer valuable for process optimisation. AD-WISE aims to develop an on-line device able to get real time VFAP measurements based on optic techniques and to integrate these measurements in the control system of the AD plant in order to optimise the process (maximise biogas production while maintaining process stability).'