Iryna Lanko

Name:

Iryna Lanko

Nationality:

Belarusian

Project ID:

ESR05

Comparison of anaerobic digestion products in mesophilic and thermophilic conditions

Short CV / biography:

After I got my master degree in civil engineering in Belarus (2009), I obtained a second Master in Europe (JEMES program, 2011) concerning environmental engineering. Thereafter, I was employed as chief process engineer of Minsk wastewater treatment plant at the unitary enterprise of Minskvadakanal, where I used to work about 5 years until September, 2016. Among my hobbies are swimming (mainly, in the sea), travelling, photographing, reading books (Bradbery), learning languages.

Short description of my topic:

I will study and characterise the anaerobic digestion processes of wastewater sludge in mesophilic and thermophilic temperature conditions: the main objects of study are biogas, digestate and supernatant. There will be not only the methane production and methane production rate measured and evaluated, but also other conditions (organic loading rate, pH, alkalinity, total suspended solids, volatile suspended solids and others). After some batch tests done, the experimental set-up will be operated with different conditions applied.
Based on the data, the life cycle assessment of, at least, two scenarios will be studied and energy effectiveness will be assessed.

My progress / state of the art :

By now there are some batch tests done, comparing thermophilic and mesophilic conditions. The influence of substrate pre-treated in various ways was analyzed. The next batch test is planned to compare different types of sludge from several full-scale wastewater treatment plants.