Multicriteria Decision Model and Thermal Pretreatment of Hotel Food Waste for Robust Output to Biogas: Case Study from City of Jaipur, India

Table 1

Analysis of the FW and inoculum.

Parameters		Inoculum
Proximate analysis
pH	5.1 ± 0.2	7.8
Total solids (%)	35.8 ± 0.5	6.4 ± 0.2
VS (%, wet basis)	34.3 ± 0.4	4.4 ± 0.8
TCOD (mg/L)	229.5 ± 38.7	-
SCOD (mg/L)	79.3 ± 4.3	-
Protein (mg/L)	20.3 ± 0.3	-
Ultimate analysis
Carbon (%)	49.5 ± 1.6	35.1 ± 1.2
Hydrogen (%)	9.9 ± 0.2	4.3 ± 0.4
Nitrogen (%)	2.7 ± 0.4	1.7 ± 0.2
Oxygen (%)	36.1 ± 1.7	58.8 ± 0.9
Sulphur (%)	0.3 ± 0.0042	-
C/N	18.33	20.64

Each parameter was measured in triplicates: SCOD, soluble COD; TCOD, total COD.