%0 Journal Article %T Anaerobic digestion of carbohydrate and protein-based wastewaters in fluidized bed bioreactors %A Fuentes %A M. %A Scenna %A N. J. %A Aguirre %A P. A. %A Mussati %A M. C. %J Latin American applied research %D 2007 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X the present work is focused on evaluating the anaerobic digestion of complex substrates (proteins and carbohydrates) in anaerobic fluidized bed reactors (afbrs). in a previous paper, an afbr model was adjusted using only the experimental data obtained during the acclimatization stage (glucose and acetate-based feeding) of two mesophilic bioreactors. here, the sensitivity of that model to represent the digestion processes of proteins such as gelatin and albumin, and sucrose as a carbohydrate, is analyzed. some kinetic expressions and parameters for the enzymatic hydrolysis processes need to be modified to represent the real behavior of bioreactors. under the analyzed operating conditions, a hydraulic retention time higher than 1 day is suggested to ensure good system efficiency. %K anaerobic processes %K biofilms %K complex substrates %K dynamic modeling %K fluidized bed bioreactor %K wastewater treatment. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0327-07932007000400002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en