Anaerobic digestion models for control purposes: a short survey

Zeyneb Khedim (1, 2, 3) , Sonia Hassam (2, 3) , Jérôme Harmand (1, 3) , Boumediene Benyahia (2)

1 LBE - Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l'Environnement [Narbonne]
2 Université Abou Bekr Belkaid Tlemcen
3 MODEMIC - Modelling and Optimisation of the Dynamics of Ecosystems with MICro-organisme

In the literature one can find two important types of models: (i) ADM1-like models, mostly dedicated to knowledge integration to come up with a real virtual anaerobic digestion (AD) process and (ii) simplified models of the AD including a limited number of steps, mostly dedicated to process optimization and control. In this paper, we go through these two types of models by presenting first, a state of the art of the ADM1 in terms of applications and modifications and then some examples of simple models of AD. We claim that the interest of complex ADM1-like models can be relevant only if their emergent properties are analyzed. A way to do so is to study simpler models and to infer what their properties imply to the so-called “complex” models.

Mots clés: ADM1, Anaerobic digestion, process control and optimization, synthesis models

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]; Sciences de l'environnement; Mathématiques [math]; Informatique [cs]

Zeyneb Khedim, Sonia Hassam, Jérôme Harmand, Boumediene Benyahia. Anaerobic digestion models for control purposes: a short survey. 14. World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion (AD14), International Water Association (IWA). INT., Nov 2015, Viña del Mar, Chile. ⟨hal-02739672⟩