Publication: Pretreatment, anaerobic codigestion, or both? Which is more suitable for the enhancement of methane production from agricultural waste?
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2021-07-02
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14203049
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Mahidol University
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Molecules. Vol.26, No.14 (2021)
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Lütfiye Dumlu, Asli Seyhan Ciggin, Stefan Ručman, N. Altınay Perendeci Pretreatment, anaerobic codigestion, or both? Which is more suitable for the enhancement of methane production from agricultural waste?. Molecules. Vol.26, No.14 (2021). doi:10.3390/molecules26144175 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/76109
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Pretreatment, anaerobic codigestion, or both? Which is more suitable for the enhancement of methane production from agricultural waste?
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Pretreatment and codigestion are proven to be effective strategies for the enhancement of the anaerobic digestion of lignocellulosic residues. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of pretreatment and codigestion on methane production and the hydrolysis rate in the anaerobic digestion of agricultural wastes (AWs). Thermal and different thermochemical pretreatments were applied on AWs. Sewage sludge (SS) was selected as a cosubstrate. Biochemical methane potential tests were performed by mixing SS with raw and pretreated AWs at different mixing ratios. Hydrolysis rates were estimated by the best fit obtained with the first-order kinetic model. As a result of the experimental and kinetic studies, the best strategy was determined to be thermochemical pretreatment with sodium hydroxide (NaOH). This strategy resulted in a maximum enhancement in the anaerobic digestion of AWs, a 56% increase in methane production, an 81.90% increase in the hydrolysis rate and a 79.63% decrease in the technical digestion time compared to raw AWs. On the other hand, anaerobic codigestion (AcoD) with SS was determined to be ineffective when it came to the enhancement of methane production and the hydrolysis rate. The most suitable mixing ratio was determined to be 80:20 (Aws/SS) for the AcoD of the studied AWs with SS in order to obtain the highest possible methane production without any antagonistic effect.