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Energies 2011, 4, 1973-2001; doi:10.3390/en4111973 OPEN ACCESS energies ISSN 1996-1073 /journal/energies Article A Computer Program for Modeling the Conversion of Organic Waste to Energy Rachel Namuli ,⋆, Claude B. Laflamme and Pragasen Pillay Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, 1515 St. Catherine West, S-EV005.139, Montreal, QC H3G 2W1, Canada; E-Mail: pillay@encs.concordia.ca Hydro-Quebec - Institut de Recherche LTE, 600, Avenue de la Montagne Shawinigan, QC G9N 7N5, Canada; E-Mail: laflamme.claude@lte.ireq.ca ⋆ Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: r namuli@encs.concordia.ca; Tel.: +1-5145590354; Fax: +1-5148482802. Received: 29 July 2011; in revised form: 8 November 2011 / Accepted: 15 November 2011 / Published: 18 November 2011 Abstract: This paper presents a tool for the analysis of conversion of organic waste into energy. The tool is a program that uses waste characterization parameters and mass flow rates at each stage of the waste treatment process to predict the given products. The specific waste treatment process analysed in this paper is anaerobic digestion. The different waste treatment stages of the anaerobic digestion process are: conditioning of input waste, secondary treatment, drying of sludge, conditioning of digestate, treatment of digestate, storage of liquid and solid effluent, disposal of liquid and solid effluents, purification, utilization and storage of combustible gas. The program uses mass balance equations to compute the amount of CH