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 4

S/N responses for different outputs.

OutputsParametersLevelsRangeRank
Level 1Level 2Level 3

Biogas productionA: ORWW portion in digester (%)37.2141.4540.594.244
B: temperature (°C)44.9643.2931.0013.951
C: sonication time (min)37.0043.5338.736.533
D: TS level in digester (%)44.4337.9036.927.512

Biomethane productionA: ORWW portion in digester (%)31.0635.2234.794.164
B: temperature (°C)38.8436.7525.4913.351
C: sonication time (min)30.5137.9632.617.453
D: TS level in digester (%)38.5331.6630.887.652

CODS removalA: ORWW portion in digester (%)39.3436.4637.252.884
B: temperature (°C)36.8335.5240.705.182
C: sonication time (min)37.4335.1840.445.261
D: TS level in digester (%)35.8136.2740.985.173