The process of anaerobic digestion of organic solid wastes with low concentration of solids is accomplished with substratum containing on average about 5% (percentage in weight) of total solids. The problems of technical order associated to this kind of treatment, are related to the study of the reactors configurations that can make possible a good transformation efficiency of the organic matter in a relatively short period of time. Therefore, in this work it was studied the process of anaerobic digestion of organic solid wastes with low concentration of solids in a compartmented anaerobic reactor (CAR). The compartmented anaerobic reactor had unitary capacity of 2200 liters. The reactor was fed daily with fresh organic solid wastes and with 90 days of solid retention time. The average efficiency of transformation of VTS was of 75% and the biogas produced contained on average 60% of methane gas.
compartmented anaerobic reactor; biogas; organic solid wastes
