Anaerobic analytics is a consultancy that has 30 years of research and know-how
Current business is focused on: 1. Successful recovery of food waste, pharmaceutical and farm based anaerobic digesters. 2. Research and development of newly designed rapid anaerobic digesters. 3. Optimising performance while retaining resilience in a digester. 4. Collaboration to improve digester know-how mostly on optimizing productivity. Dr Phil Hobbs is a leading consultant in anaerobic digestion research has a broad-ranging research portfolio, (formerly the Leader of Bioenergy at Rothamsted Research). Research in anaerobic digestion focused on optimising fermentation productivity; development of real-time monitoring and process control and microbial and biochemical profiling of fermentation. During his career he has also made major contributions to the development of understanding degradation and emissions of volatile compounds from compost, including advances in human olfaction and multi-sensor measurement of odorous emissions from agriculture. He has written over 70 published peer-reviewed papers in the field of environmental aspects of agriculture and specifically anaerobic digestion of waste streams. These topics included ancillary disciplines of microbial ecology, waste treatment, odour control and the biochemistry of waste processes. He has also contributed chapters to a number of books covering the sector, played a lead role in various conferences and contributed to numerous reports on AD for the UK government and the EU. He has also been involved in assessing emissions from agriculture in relation to atmospheric ozone production, greenhouse gas potential and pathogen transportation, as well as developing innovative approaches to composting in conjunction with selected fungi to degrade poly-aromatic hydrocarbons. |
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Here are some of our relevant publications to optimize biogas plant performance
Optimisation of the anaerobic digestion of agricultural resources
Bioresource technology 99 Issue 17 Pages 7928-7940It is in the interest of operators of anaerobic digestion plants to maximise methane
production whilst concomitantly reducing the chemical oxygen demand of the digested material. Although the production of biogas through anaerobic digestion is not a new idea, commercial anaerobic digestion processes are often operated at well below their optimal performance due to a variety of factors.
Bioenergy from permanent grassland–A review: 1. Biogas
Bioresource Technology Volume 100 Issue 21 Pages 4931-4944
Grassland biomass is suitable in numerous ways for producing energy. It is well established as feedstock for biogas production. The aim of this review is to summarize current knowledge on suitability and sustainability of grassland biomass for anaerobic digestion. In the first section grassland management for biogas feedstock as well as specifics of harvest, postharvest and digestion technology are described. Methane yields from grass are influenced by many factors.
The sustainability of small scale anaerobic digesters at the farm scale
Chapter 18 In book 'Bio-energy production by anaerobic digestion' August 29, 2013
Interest in anaerobic digestion has increased rapidly in recent years. This book is one of the first to provide a broad introduction to anaerobic digestion and its potential as a viable means to turn agricultural crops or crop residues, animal and other organic waste, into biomethane.
The Taguchi methodology as a statistical tool for biotechnological applications: a critical appraisal
Biotechnology Journal: Healthcare Nutrition Technology Volume 3 Issue 4 Pages 510-523
Success in experiments and/or technology mainly depends on a properly designed process or product. The traditional method of process optimization involves the study of one variable at a time, which requires a number of combinations of experiments that are time, cost and labor intensive. The Taguchi method of design of experiments is a simple statistical tool involving a system of tabulated designs (arrays) that allows a maximum number of main effects to be estimated in an unbiased (orthogonal) fashion with a minimum number of experimental runs. It has been applied to predict the significant contribution of the design variable(s) and the optimum combination of each variable by conducting experiments on a real‐time basis. The modeling that is performed essentially relates signal‐to‐noise ratio to the control variables in a 'main effect only' approach.
Optimisation of the anaerobic digestion of agricultural resources
Bioresource technology 99 Issue 17 Pages 7928-7940It is in the interest of operators of anaerobic digestion plants to maximise methane
production whilst concomitantly reducing the chemical oxygen demand of the digested material. Although the production of biogas through anaerobic digestion is not a new idea, commercial anaerobic digestion processes are often operated at well below their optimal performance due to a variety of factors.
Bioenergy from permanent grassland–A review: 1. Biogas
Bioresource Technology Volume 100 Issue 21 Pages 4931-4944
Grassland biomass is suitable in numerous ways for producing energy. It is well established as feedstock for biogas production. The aim of this review is to summarize current knowledge on suitability and sustainability of grassland biomass for anaerobic digestion. In the first section grassland management for biogas feedstock as well as specifics of harvest, postharvest and digestion technology are described. Methane yields from grass are influenced by many factors.
The sustainability of small scale anaerobic digesters at the farm scale
Chapter 18 In book 'Bio-energy production by anaerobic digestion' August 29, 2013
Interest in anaerobic digestion has increased rapidly in recent years. This book is one of the first to provide a broad introduction to anaerobic digestion and its potential as a viable means to turn agricultural crops or crop residues, animal and other organic waste, into biomethane.
The Taguchi methodology as a statistical tool for biotechnological applications: a critical appraisal
Biotechnology Journal: Healthcare Nutrition Technology Volume 3 Issue 4 Pages 510-523
Success in experiments and/or technology mainly depends on a properly designed process or product. The traditional method of process optimization involves the study of one variable at a time, which requires a number of combinations of experiments that are time, cost and labor intensive. The Taguchi method of design of experiments is a simple statistical tool involving a system of tabulated designs (arrays) that allows a maximum number of main effects to be estimated in an unbiased (orthogonal) fashion with a minimum number of experimental runs. It has been applied to predict the significant contribution of the design variable(s) and the optimum combination of each variable by conducting experiments on a real‐time basis. The modeling that is performed essentially relates signal‐to‐noise ratio to the control variables in a 'main effect only' approach.
Recent publications
Going Green: Achieving the Circular Economy with Sustainable Biorefineries, Process Scale‐Up, and Fermentation Optimization
SR Ravella, DN Bryant, PJ Hobbs, A Winters, DJ Warren‐Walker, ...
Lignocellulose Bioconversion Through White Biotechnology, 367-3972022
Hydrolysis of growth defined plant biomass using enzyme cocktails: an optimisation approach for enhanced fermentable hydrolysates
HP Oamen, EO Ojo, PJ Hobbs, A Retter
Scientific African 32019
Hydrolysis of plant biomass at different growth stages using enzyme cocktails for increased fermentable hydrolysates
HP Oamen, EO Ojo, PJ Hobbs, A Retter
Scientific African 3, e0007752019
Biodiversity–function relationships in methanogenic communities
P Sierocinski, F Bayer, G Yvon‐Durocher, M Burdon, T Großkopf, M Alston, ...
Molecular ecology 27 (22), 4641-4651322018
A single community dominates structure and function of a mixture of multiple methanogenic communities
P Sierocinski, K Milferstedt, F Bayer, T Großkopf, M Alston, S Bastkowski, ...
Current Biology 27 (21), 3390-3395. e4
Going Green: Achieving the Circular Economy with Sustainable Biorefineries, Process Scale‐Up, and Fermentation Optimization
SR Ravella, DN Bryant, PJ Hobbs, A Winters, DJ Warren‐Walker, ...
Lignocellulose Bioconversion Through White Biotechnology, 367-3972022
Hydrolysis of growth defined plant biomass using enzyme cocktails: an optimisation approach for enhanced fermentable hydrolysates
HP Oamen, EO Ojo, PJ Hobbs, A Retter
Scientific African 32019
Hydrolysis of plant biomass at different growth stages using enzyme cocktails for increased fermentable hydrolysates
HP Oamen, EO Ojo, PJ Hobbs, A Retter
Scientific African 3, e0007752019
Biodiversity–function relationships in methanogenic communities
P Sierocinski, F Bayer, G Yvon‐Durocher, M Burdon, T Großkopf, M Alston, ...
Molecular ecology 27 (22), 4641-4651322018
A single community dominates structure and function of a mixture of multiple methanogenic communities
P Sierocinski, K Milferstedt, F Bayer, T Großkopf, M Alston, S Bastkowski, ...
Current Biology 27 (21), 3390-3395. e4
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