Linearized kinetic models for the simulation of the mesophilic anaerobic digestion of pre-hydrolyzed woody wastes

The most common kinetic models available in the literature to describe the COD consumption during batch anaerobic digestion are checked and compared in their linearized forms in the case of prehydrolyzed mixtures simulating the composition of woody wastes. The introduction of the COD value at the end of batch digestion in both the First Order and the Monod models allows one to take into account the deviations due to the progressive increase in the fraction of difficultly-digestible substances present in the medium. The so-modified version of the First Order model as well as. that proposed by Singh and co-workers not only show the best fits to the experimental data but also demonstrate that they are the simplest and easiest ones for immediate use