Volatile fatty acids bio-production using extracellular polymeric substances disengaged from sludge for carbon source recycling.
Extracellular polymeric substances
Interspecific interaction network
Microbial community
Resource recovery
Volatile fatty acids
Journal
Bioresource technology
ISSN: 1873-2976
Titre abrégé: Bioresour Technol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9889523
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2023
Oct 2023
Historique:
received:
18
06
2023
revised:
19
07
2023
accepted:
25
07
2023
medline:
14
8
2023
pubmed:
29
7
2023
entrez:
28
7
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Excessive waste-activated sludge (WAS) and insufficient carbon source (CS) for biological nitrogen removal (BNR) often coexist in municipal sewage treatment. Although the production of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) from WAS has been recognized as a promising solution, the development is limited by low VFAs production efficiency and dewatering deterioration of sludge. This study extracted the extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) from sludge by low-temperature thermal-hydrolysis (LTH) and high-speed hydro-cyclone (HSHC) pretreatment and recovered it for high-quality VFAs bio-production in thermophilic fermentation. Microbial mechanism analysis disclosed that interspecific interaction networks composed of functional flora, which accumulate VFAs by bio-converting EPS primarily and supplemented by EPS synthesis, guaranteed the efficient bio-production of VFAs. This process scheme shows promise in providing alternative denitrification CSs and avoiding deterioration of sludge dewaterability.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37506926
pii: S0960-8524(23)00993-8
doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2023.129565
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Sewage
0
Carbon
7440-44-0
Fatty Acids, Volatile
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
129565Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.