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Progress to date<br />
A lot of data must be produced before work<br />
can start on modelling and controlling the<br />
anaerobic process. Therefore, laboratory reactors<br />
with the appropriate sensors and analyses are<br />
being operated by partner IAM and Profactor.<br />
The main goal of these experiments is the<br />
generation of data which can be used to train the<br />
neural network.<br />
A structure of the neural net has been developed<br />
for the neural network as a start to the training<br />
process. This structure is only a first draft and<br />
has to be further developed during the training<br />
process. During a discussion process with those<br />
partners operating industrial biogas plants, the<br />
importance of cheap and reliable measurement<br />
methods was stressed. It was considered<br />
important that, on the one hand a minimum<br />
necessary instrumentation for each partners<br />
biogas-plant was agreed and, on the other, two<br />
versions of the control software would seem to<br />
be necessary – s simpler version for those<br />
continuously operated small biogas plants with<br />
less instrumentation, and a sophisticated version<br />
for plants with full process control. Subsequently,<br />
partner IAM developed a client-server software<br />
solution for the control program. The prediction<br />
program for biogas fermentation with neuronal<br />
networks has been included in a Client/Server-<br />
Software solution. The original prediction program<br />
Figure 1: Laboratory reactors operated by<br />
partner Profactor.<br />
is located on a server on the World Wide Web,<br />
and is waiting for data from the client. Using<br />
the client version it is possible for the user to<br />
select Excel data files, send all necessary<br />
data for prediction to the server, and get<br />
prediction results back to the ‘front panel’ of the<br />
client program.<br />
In addition, two fuel cell stations have been<br />
designed and constructed by partner CSIC and<br />
the first experiments have been carried out.<br />
Partner Profactor has done the analytical<br />
method development for a comprehensive<br />
biogas analyses. And almost all partners were<br />
involved in an intensive study concerning<br />
available sensors and the testing of reliable<br />
methods to measure the main parameters in<br />
large biogas plants.<br />
Figure 2: Example of a client front panel for the control program<br />
developed by IAM.<br />
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INFORMATION<br />
References: ENK6-CT-2001-00518<br />
Programme:<br />
FP5 - <strong>Energy</strong>, Environment and<br />
Sustainable Development<br />
Title:<br />
Advanced Prediction, Monitoring<br />
and Controlling of Anaerobic Digestion<br />
Processes Behaviour Towards <strong>Bio</strong>gas<br />
Usage in Fuel Cells – AMONCO<br />
Duration: 36 months<br />
Contact point:<br />
Marianne Haberbauer<br />
Profactor Produktionsforschungs GmbH<br />
Tel: +43-7252-884205<br />
Fax: +43-7252-884244<br />
marianne.haberbauer@profactor.at<br />
Partners:<br />
Profactor (A)<br />
CSIC (E)<br />
Energieverwertungsagentur (A)<br />
University of Natural Resources and<br />
Applied Life Sciences –Vienna (A)<br />
Matadero Frigorifico del Nalon (E)<br />
GASCON (DK)<br />
Slovenska Pol’nohospodarska<br />
Universita V Nitre (SI)<br />
EBV Management (D)<br />
SARIA <strong>Bio</strong>-Industries (D)<br />
Farmatic <strong>Bio</strong>tech <strong>Energy</strong> (D)<br />
<strong>Bio</strong>gas Barth (D)<br />
Seaborne (D)<br />
EC Scientific Officer:<br />
Jeroen Schuppers<br />
Tel: +32-2-2957006<br />
Fax: +32-2-2993694<br />
jeroen.schuppers@cec.eu.int<br />
Status: Ongoing