Abstract

Fast characterization of organic waste using near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has been successfully developed in the last decade. However, up to now, an on-site use of this technology has been hindered by necessary sample preparation steps (freeze-drying and grinding) to avoid important water effects on NIRS. Recent research studies have shown that these effects are highly non-linear and relate both to the biochemical and physical properties of samples. To account for these complex effects, the current study compares the use of many different types of non-linear methods such as partial least squares regression (PLSR) based methods (global, clustered and local versions of PLSR), machine learning methods (support vector machines, regression trees and ensemble methods) and deep learning methods (artificial and convolutional neural networks). On an independent test data set, non-linear methods showed errors 28% lower than linear methods. The standard errors of prediction obtained for the prediction of total solids content (TS%), chemical oxygen demand (COD) and biochemical methane potential (BMP) were respectively 8%, 160 mg(O2).gTS−1 and 92 mL(CH4).gTS−1. These latter errors are similar to successful NIRS applications developed on freeze-dried samples. These findings hold great promises regarding the development of at-site and online NIRS solutions in anaerobic digestion plants.

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