scholarly journals Progressive Two-Stage Efficient Codigestion of Food Waste and Petrochemical Wastewater for Higher Methane and Hydrogen Production

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (11) ◽  
pp. 2575-2578
Author(s):  
M.N.I. Siddique ◽  
B.K. Zaied ◽  
M.N. Kabir ◽  
M.F. Ahmad

The valorization of agro-modern waste through anaerobic codigestion signifies a remarkable prospect for waste treatment and sustainable energy source generation. This study intended to improve the codigestion of food waste and petrochemical wastewater by an advanced two-phase process. In view of concentric acidogenic and methanogenic stages, intended for upgrading execution and diminishing pollution. The ideal food waste to petrochemical wastewater proportion was assessed under batch operations. From that point, codigestion was carried out by continuous feeding operations weighting single-and two-phase digestions. The outcomes exhibited that the supplementation of petrochemical wastewater in codigestion with food waste incredibly improved the anaerobic system. The maximum methane generation was acquired codigesting the two wastes at equivalent proportion by utilizing the creative two-phase system. The proposed framework achieved the highest methane production of 259 mL/g volatile solid, which is more than double than the single-phase system and 11 % greater than that of conventional two-phase system.

2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 103-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Fernández ◽  
P. Porrier ◽  
R. Chamy

The anaerobic systems start-up for solid waste treatment is a fundamental step, especially for those with two phases. It is necessary to know both the waste characteristics and the inoculum conditions. The objective of this work was to study the inoculum-substrate ratio (ISR) influence as a previous step of the start-up of an anaerobic system for the solid waste digestion. During this research spent grain was chosen as residue, working at three different concentrations (7; 13 and 20% w/v), studying the ISR effect in terms of anaerobic degradability (AD) and specific methane productivity (SMP). The initial acetoclastic activities (A0) were calculated based on the equation which describes the methane accumulation during each test. The model constants were also calculated and were adjusted to the experimental data. The results showed that in general the ISR variation has less impact on AD than on SMP. While maximum AD were reached in those tests with high ISR, the greatest values of SMP were with the lowest values of ISR ratio. A low ISR caused a slow hydrolysis, although the methane production was fast. So, during the start-up of a two-phase anaerobic system an elevated ISR would not be necessary in order to reach a good AD and a good intermediate products production, because the hydrolysis and the VFA production must be optimised in the first phase of these systems. While in conventional systems, where phases are together, it is much better to optimise the methane production. The ISR and the SMP indicated which inoculum percentage would be interesting based on the objective of the whole system: methane or intermediate compounds (VFA) production. All this information is important during the conventional anaerobic reactors operation because these tests would show which ISRs avoid inhibition.


2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (12) ◽  
pp. 159-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.Y. Wang ◽  
H.L. Xu ◽  
J.H. Tay

A hybrid two-phase system, consisting of a solid waste reactor as the acidification reactor and a wastewater reactor, i.e. an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor, as the methanogenic reactor, for anaerobic digestion of food waste was investigated. After the pre-acidification stage, COD and total VFA removals in the methanogenic phase were in the ranges of 74-93% and 77-100%, respectively, while leachate COD and total VFA concentrations in the acidification phase decreased by 95% and 97-99%, respectively. Some 99% of the total CH4 generated was from the methanogenic phase with the CH4 content of 68-70%. About 77-79% of TOC, 57-60% of volatile solids and 79-80% of total COD were removed. The results of this laboratory-scale study show that the hybrid two-phase anaerobic batch reactor system is suitable for effective conversion of food waste into CH4 and CO2. The hybrid two-phase system can be further developed into an effective and efficient way to enhance waste stabilization in operating bioreactor landfills.


Author(s):  
Franco Cecchi ◽  
Cristina Cavinato

Food waste, among the organic wastes, is one of the most promising substrates to be used as a renewable resource. Wide availability of food waste and the high greenhouse gas impacts derived from its inappropriate disposal, boost research through food waste valorization. Several innovative technologies are applied nowadays, mainly focused on bioenergy and bioresource recovery, within a circular economy approach. Nevertheless, food waste treatment should be evaluated in terms of sustainability and considering the availability of an optimized separate collection and a suitable treatment facility. Anaerobic codigestion of waste-activated sludge with food waste is a way to fully utilize available anaerobic digestion plants, increasing biogas production, energy, and nutrient recovery and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Codigestion implementation in Europe is explored and discussed in this paper, taking into account different food waste collection approaches in relation to anaerobic digestion treatment and confirming the sustainability of the anaerobic process based on case studies. Household food waste disposal implementation is also analyzed, and the results show that such a waste management system is able to reduce GHG emissions due to transport reduction and increase wastewater treatment performance.


2008 ◽  
Vol 57 (9) ◽  
pp. 1369-1373 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Y. Liu ◽  
H. B. Ding ◽  
S. Sreeramachandran ◽  
O. Stabnikova ◽  
J. Y. Wang

The hybrid anaerobic solid-liquid (HASL) system is a modified two-phase anaerobic digester for food waste treatment. To enhance the performance of anaerobic digestion in the HASL system, thermal pre-treatment (heating at 150°C for 1 h) and freezing/thawing (freezing for 24 h at−20°C and then thawing for 12 h at 25°C) were proposed for food waste pre-treatment before the anaerobic digestion. Both processes were able to alter the characteristics and structure of food waste favoring substance solubilization, and hence production of methane. However, there was no net energy gain when the energy required by the pre-treatment processes was taken into account.


2021 ◽  
pp. 126396
Author(s):  
Debkumar Chakraborty ◽  
Parthiba Karthikeyan. O ◽  
Ammaiyappan Selvam ◽  
Sankar Ganesh Palani ◽  
Makarand M. Ghangrekar ◽  
...  

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 59-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. W. Szetela

Steady-state models are presented to describe the wastewater treatment process in two activated sludge systems. One of these makes use of a single complete-mix reactor; the other one involves two complete-mix reactors arranged in series. The in-series system is equivalent to what is known as the “two-phase” activated sludge, a concept which is now being launched throughout Poland in conjunction with the PROMLECZ technology under implementation. Analysis of the mathematical models has revealed the following: (1) treatment efficiency, excess sludge production, energy consumption, and the degree of sludge stabilization are identical in the two systems; (2) there exists a technological equivalence of “two-phase” sludge with “single-phase” sludge; (3) the “two-phase” system has no technological advantage over the “single-phase” system.


1985 ◽  
Vol 50 (8) ◽  
pp. 1642-1647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Štefan Baláž ◽  
Anton Kuchár ◽  
Ernest Šturdík ◽  
Michal Rosenberg ◽  
Ladislav Štibrányi ◽  
...  

The distribution kinetics of 35 2-furylethylene derivatives in two-phase system 1-octanol-water was investigated. The transport rate parameters in direction water-1-octanol (l1) and backwards (l2) are partition coefficient P = l1/l2 dependent according to equations l1 = logP - log(βP + 1) + const., l2 = -log(βP + 1) + const., const. = -5.600, β = 0.261. Importance of this finding for assesment of distribution of compounds under investigation in biosystems and also the suitability of the presented method for determination of partition coefficients are discussed.


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