Appraisal of methane production and anaerobic fermentation kinetics of livestock manures using artificial neural networks and sinusoidal growth functions


Ali M. M., Ndongo M., YETİLMEZSOY K., Bahramian M., Bilal B., Youm I., ...More

Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, vol.23, no.1, pp.301-314, 2021 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 23 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2021
  • Doi Number: 10.1007/s10163-020-01130-2
  • Journal Name: Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, ABI/INFORM, Compendex, Environment Index, INSPEC, Pollution Abstracts, Civil Engineering Abstracts
  • Page Numbers: pp.301-314
  • Keywords: Anaerobic digestion, Artificial neural networks, Methane production, Sinusoidal growth functions, Livestock manure, BIOGAS PRODUCTION, CATTLE MANURE, CO-DIGESTION, WASTE-WATER, PRETREATMENT, PREDICTION, PH, MODELS
  • Yıldız Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

© 2020, Springer Japan KK, part of Springer Nature.This study aimed to perform a comparative analysis of the performance of five models (Gompertz, logistic, Richards, the first-order, artificial neural networks) in predicting methane production rate from anaerobic digestion of livestock manures. The input variables were fermentation time, digestion temperature, biogas temperature, ambient temperature, pH, and specific biogas production rate. The physicochemical compositions of cow manure and sheep manure showed that volatile solid (VS) contents were close to each other in manure compositions (77.6% and 64.7%, respectively), while the potential of methane production from cow manure (673.44 mL CH4/g VS) was greater than that from sheep manure (320.32 mL CH4/g VS). The determination coefficients (R2) for logistic function, Gompertz, Richards, the first-order, and ANN models were obtained as 0.968, 0.967, 0.975, 0.825, and 0.995 for the cow manure, respectively. In case of the sheep manure, the R2 values obtained from these models were 0.976, 0.979, 0.981, 0.968 and 0.991, respectively. Although the determination coefficients of all models were in satisfactory agreement with the experimental data, the ANN model showed competitive lower RMSE values of 0.111 and 0.164 for cow and sheep manure data sets, respectively, indicating its superior performance than other models.