Research Article

Modeling and Multiresponse Optimization for Anaerobic Codigestion of Oil Refinery Wastewater and Chicken Manure by Using Artificial Neural Network and the Taguchi Method

Table 3

Design of Taguchi’s L9 orthogonal array and experimental results for different outputs.

RunFactor levelsDesignationObtained outputsCalculated S/N ratios for
ABCDBGP yield (mL/gVS)BMP yield (mL/gVS)CODS removal (%)BGP yieldBMP yieldCODS removal

13336156A1B1C1D1167.39 ± 16.9279.58 ± 8.8568.81 ± 11.9644.3437.8736.35
244363018A2B1C2D3240.01 ± 5.25124.09 ± 6.8469.85 ± 13.1647.6041.8336.40
3444606A2B2C3D1270.99 ± 7.87126.78 ± 6.7457.69 ± 3.1948.6542.0335.18
433463011A1B2C2D2136.28 ± 3.1867.76 ± 9.21−123.25 ± 12.9642.6836.3533.26
55556306A3B3C2D1104.02 ± 5.8361.64 ± 5.35−81.33 ± 25.7240.3035.7035.89
655461518A3B2C1D386.54 ± 10.1541.11 ± 6.7780.57 ± 0.4038.5631.8638.12
73356018A1B3C3D317.07 ± 0.929.34 ± 1.73−263.42 ± 0024.6018.9648.41
844561511A2B3C1D225.55 ± 1.5113.62 ± 3.16−91.95 ± 29.8928.1021.8137.81
95536011A3B1C3D2140.11 ± 0.3169.98 ± 4.7977.44 ± 4.0342.9336.8337.75
Control 1----CM:Sludge302.87 ± 7.71166.40 ± 5.3942.57 ± 1.50---
Control 2----ORWW:Sludge20.67 ± 2.350.000.00---

Mean ± Stdev.