ANAERO-CONTROL: an new strategy to optimize fermentation performance by means of measurement of compounds by optical sensors
Abstract
The project's objective is to demonstrate economical and practical advantages of automated fermentation process control by on-line monitoring of substrates, metabolites and end-products by using on-line sensors for the fermentation broth combined with gas sensors for the reactors head-space. Anaerobic fermentation serves as an example and it will be shown, that the yield of methane, which is the valuable product in this fermentation, can be optimized. The involved partners did choose this application, because it is a type of worst-case scenario due to a very complex sample matrix, a high amount of cells and suspended solids and also difficult analytes. The experiences gained in this process can be transferred to other, completely different industrial fermentation processes like lactic acid fermentation.
Publications
- external links and characteristics of the publication:
Verwendung von neuronalen Netzen und virtuellen Instrumenten zur Steuerung von Biogasfermentationen
Autoren: Holubar, P., Zani, L., Hager, M., Fröschl, W., Radak, Z., Braun, R. Jahr: 2000
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
external links and characteristics of the publication:Advanced controlling of anaerobic digestion by means of hierarchical neural networks.
Autoren: Holubar, P; Zani, L; Hager, M; Fröschl, W; Radak, Z; Braun, R; Jahr: 2002
Journal articles
- external links and characteristics of the publication:
Start-up and Recovery of a Biogas-Reactor using a Hierarchical Neural Network-based Control Tool
Autoren: Holubar, P., Zani, L., Hager, M., Fröschl, W., Radak, Z., Braun, R. Jahr: 2003
Journal articles
Project staff
Peter Holubar
ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing.Dr.nat.techn. Peter Holubar MBA.
peter.holubar@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-19211, 79111
Project Leader
01.11.1998 - 31.10.2000
BOKU partners
External partners
European Commission, DG XII
partner