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Evaluation Criteria and Benefit Analysis of Mixing Process in Anaerobic Digesters of Biogas Plants

Environmental and Climate Technologies
Volume 24 (2020): Issue 3 (November 2020)
By: Fosca Conti,  Abdessamad Saidi and  Markus Goldbrunner  
Open Access
|Dec 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2020-0105 | Journal eISSN: 2255-8837 | Journal ISSN: 1691-5208
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Language: English
Page range: 305 - 317
Published on: Dec 14, 2020
Published by: Riga Technical University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
Anaerobic digester,
biomass,
computational fluid dynamics (CFD),
Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA),
evaluation criteria,
flow velocity,
full scale biogas digester,
mixing,
propeller
Related subjects:
Life sciences,
Life sciences, other

© 2020 Fosca Conti, Abdessamad Saidi, Markus Goldbrunner, published by Riga Technical University
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