Research Article

Modeling and Multiresponse Optimization for Anaerobic Codigestion of Oil Refinery Wastewater and Chicken Manure by Using Artificial Neural Network and the Taguchi Method

Table 1

Chemical characteristics of the utilized substrates.

CharacteristicsSubstrates
Sonicated ORWW with different time durationsCMInoculum
0 min15 min30 min

TS (%)1.73 ± 0.031.81 ± 0.011.94 ± 0.0633.86 ± 2.502.51 ± 0.10
VS (% of TS)2.69 ± 0.702.82 ± 0.452.77 ± 0.2365.35 ± 0.6049.35 ± 1.00
TOC (g/Kg of TS)30.28 ± 2.1031.14 ± 1.8931.09 ± 0.51440.22 ± 3.5036.81 ± 4.30
OM (g/Kg of TS)52.17 ± 2.9553.65 ± 2.6653.57 ± 0.72758.49 ± 4.9463.42 ± 6.05
TN (g/Kg of TS)0.20 ± 0.010.19 ± 0.030.21 ± 0.1242.27 ± 0.102.04 ± 0.20
C : N ratio151.40 : 1163.89 : 1148.05 : 110.41 : 117.71 : 1

Mean ± Stdev.