Impacts of mixing on foaming, methane production, stratification and microbial community in full-scale anaerobic co-digestion process.
Anaerobic co-digestion
Biomolecular techniques
Digester mixing
Foaming
Microbial community
Journal
Bioresource technology
ISSN: 1873-2976
Titre abrégé: Bioresour Technol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9889523
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jun 2019
Jun 2019
Historique:
received:
15
01
2019
revised:
15
02
2019
accepted:
16
02
2019
pubmed:
3
3
2019
medline:
10
9
2019
entrez:
3
3
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This study investigated the impact of mixing on key factors including foaming, substrate stratification, methane production and microbial community in three full scale anaerobic digesters. Digester foaming was observed at one plant that co-digested sewage sludge and food waste, and was operated without mixing. The lack of mixing led to uneven distribution of total chemical oxygen demand (tCOD) and volatile solid (VS) as well as methane production within the digester. 16S rRNA gene-based community analysis clearly differentiated the microbial community from the top and bottom. By contrast, foaming and substrate stratification were not observed at the other two plants with internal circulation mixing. The abundance of methanogens (Methanomicrobia) at the top was about four times higher than at the bottom, correlating to much higher methane production from the top verified by ex-situ biomethane assay, causing foaming. This result is consistent with foaming potential assessment of digestate samples from the digester.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30825825
pii: S0960-8524(19)30285-8
doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.02.077
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
0
Sewage
0
Methane
OP0UW79H66
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
226-233Informations de copyright
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