Performance of a Full-Scale Anaerobic Digestion on Bakery Wastewater Treatment : Effect of Modified Distribution System

The effectiveness of a full-scale anaerobic digestion pretreatment was evaluated and the effect of wastewater distribution system was determined on the performance of bakery wastewater (BW) treatment. The BW was fed to 3 series of anaerobic compartments as the main degradation process. The distribution system of first compartment was modified and circulated to enhance contact and efficiency. While the effluent of last compartment was partly returned to the first compartment as an external circulation and the other part was further processed in activated sludge under aerobic conditions. The overall system was able to remove chemical oxygen demand (COD), total suspended solids (TSS), and biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) up to 97.7%, 99.7%, and 99.6%, respectively, at maximum organic loading rate of 6.3 kg COD/m3day. High removal of pollutants indicated that modified distribution of circulation is advantageous to the BW treatment

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Working Parameters Optimization of Hydrolysis-acidogenesis reactor in two stage anaerobic digestion of slaughterhouse Wastewater for Biogas Production

10.21203/rs.2.20690/v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Dejene Tsegaye Bedane ◽

Mohammed Mazharuddin Khan ◽

Seyoum Leta Asfaw

Keyword(s):

Anaerobic Digestion ◽

Working Conditions ◽

Retention Time ◽

Hydraulic Retention Time ◽

Loading Rate ◽

Oxygen Demand ◽

Organic Loading Rate ◽

Organic Loading ◽

Slaughterhouse Wastewater ◽

Working Parameters

Abstract Background : Wastewater from agro-industries such as slaughterhouse is typical organic wastewater with high value of biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, biological organic nutrients (Nitrogen and phosphate) which are insoluble, slowly biodegradable solids, pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria and viruses, parasite eggs. Moreover it contains high protein and putrefies fast leading to environmental pollution problem. This indicates that slaughterhouses are among the most environmental polluting agro-industries. Anaerobic digestion is a sequence of metabolic steps involving consortiums of several microbial populations to form a complex metabolic interaction network resulting in the conversation of organic matter into methane (CH 4 ), carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other trace compounds. Separation of the phase permits the optimization of the organic loading rate and HRT based on the requirements of the microbial consortiums of each phase. The purpose of this study was to optimize the working conditions for the hydrolytic - acidogenic stage in two step/phase anaerobic digestion of slaughterhouse wastewater. The setup of the laboratory scale reactor was established at Center for Environmental Science, College of Natural Science with a total volume of 40 liter (36 liter working volume and 4 liter gas space). The working parameters for hydrolytic - acidogenic stage were optimized for six hydraulic retention time 1-6 days and equivalent organic loading rate of 5366.43 – 894.41 mg COD/L day to evaluate the effect of the working parameters on the performance of hydrolytic – acidogenic reactor. Result : The finding revealed that hydraulic retention time of 3 day with organic loading rate of 1,788.81 mg COD/L day was a as an optimal working conditions for the parameters under study for the hydrolytic - acidogenic stage. The degree of hydrolysis and acidification were mainly influenced by lower hydraulic retention time (higher organic loading rate) and highest values recorded were 63.92 % at hydraulic retention time of 3 day and 53.26% at hydraulic retention time of 2 day respectively. Conclusion : The finding of the present study indicated that at steady state the concentration of soluble chemical oxygen demand and total volatile fatty acids increase as hydraulic retention time decreased or organic loading rate increased from 1 day hydraulic retention time to 3 day hydraulic retention time and decreases as hydraulic retention time increase from 4 to 6 day. The lowest concentration of NH 4 + -N and highest degree of acidification was also achieved at hydraulic retention time of 3 day. Therefore, it can be concluded that hydraulic retention time of 3 day/organic loading rate of 1,788.81 mg COD/L .day was selected as an optimal working condition for the high performance and stability during the two stage anaerobic digestion of slaughterhouse wastewater for the hydrolytic-acidogenic stage under mesophilic temperature range selected (37.5℃). Keywords : Slaughterhouse Wastewater, Hydrolytic – Acidogenic, Two Phase Anaerobic Digestion, Optimal Condition, Agro-processing wastewater

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Impact of organic loading rate and reactor design on thermophilic anaerobic digestion of mixed supermarket waste

Waste Management ◽

10.1016/j.wasman.2021.01.012 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 123 ◽

pp. 52-59

Author(s):

L. Megido ◽

L. Negral ◽

Y. Fernández-Nava ◽

B. Suárez-Peña ◽

P. Ormaechea ◽

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Keyword(s):

Anaerobic Digestion ◽

Loading Rate ◽

Reactor Design ◽

Organic Loading Rate ◽

Organic Loading ◽

Thermophilic Anaerobic Digestion

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Effect of organic loading rate on anaerobic digestion of thermally pretreated Scenedesmus sp. biomass

Bioresource Technology ◽

10.1016/j.biortech.2012.10.123 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 129 ◽

pp. 219-223 ◽

Cited By ~ 56

Author(s):

C. González-Fernández ◽

B. Sialve ◽

N. Bernet ◽

J.P. Steyer

Keyword(s):

Anaerobic Digestion ◽

Loading Rate ◽

Organic Loading Rate ◽

Organic Loading

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Effects of hydraulic retention time and organic loading rate on performance and stability of anaerobic digestion of Spirulina platensis

Biosystems Engineering ◽

10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2016.04.006 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 147 ◽

pp. 174-182 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Natthiporn Aramrueang ◽

Joshua Rapport ◽

Ruihong Zhang

Keyword(s):

Anaerobic Digestion ◽

Retention Time ◽

Spirulina Platensis ◽

Hydraulic Retention Time ◽

Loading Rate ◽

Organic Loading Rate ◽

Organic Loading

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Anaerobic digester foaming in full-scale cylindrical digesters – Effects of organic loading rate, feed characteristics, and mixing

Bioresource Technology ◽

10.1016/j.biortech.2014.02.089 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 159 ◽

pp. 182-192 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Bhargavi Subramanian ◽

Krishna R. Pagilla

Keyword(s):

Loading Rate ◽

Anaerobic Digester ◽

Full Scale ◽

Organic Loading Rate ◽

Organic Loading

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Adjusting Organic Load as a Strategy to Direct Single-Stage Food Waste Fermentation from Anaerobic Digestion to Chain Elongation

Processes ◽

10.3390/pr8111487 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (11) ◽

pp. 1487

Author(s):

Vicky De Groof ◽

Marta Coma ◽

Tom C. Arnot ◽

David J. Leak ◽

Ana B. Lanham

Keyword(s):

Anaerobic Digestion ◽

Food Waste ◽

Loading Rate ◽

Biogas Production ◽

Single Stage ◽

Stirred Tank ◽

Chain Elongation ◽

Organic Loading Rate ◽

Organic Loading ◽

Operating Strategy

Production of medium chain carboxylic acids (MCCA) as renewable feedstock bio-chemicals, from food waste (FW), requires complicated reactor configurations and supplementation of chemicals to achieve product selectivity. This study evaluated the manipulation of organic loading rate in an un-supplemented, single stage stirred tank reactor to steer an anaerobic digestion (AD) microbiome towards acidogenic fermentation (AF), and thence to chain elongation. Increasing substrate availability by switching to a FW feedstock with a higher COD stimulated chain elongation. The MCCA species n-caproic (10.1 ± 1.7 g L−1) and n-caprylic (2.9 ± 0.8 g L−1) acid were produced at concentrations comparable to more complex reactor set-ups. As a result, of the adjusted operating strategy, a more specialised microbiome developed containing several MCCA-producing bacteria, lactic acid-producing Olsenella spp. and hydrogenotrophic methanogens. By contrast, in an AD reactor that was operated in parallel to produce biogas, the retention times had to be doubled when fed with the high-COD FW to maintain biogas production. The AD microbiome comprised a diverse mixture of hydrolytic and acidogenic bacteria, and acetoclastic methanogens. The results suggest that manipulation of organic loading rate and food-to-microorganism ratio may be used as an operating strategy to direct an AD microbiome towards AF, and to stimulate chain elongation in FW fermentation, using a simple, un-supplemented stirred tank set-up. This outcome provides the opportunity to repurpose existing AD assets operating on food waste for biogas production, to produce potentially higher value MCCA products, via simple manipulation of the feeding strategy.

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