TY - JOUR
T1 - Upgrading of anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge by a hyper-thermophilic-mesophilic temperature-phased process with a recycle system
AU - Wu, L. J.
AU - Qin, Y.
AU - Hojo, Toshimasa
AU - Li, Y. Y.
PY - 2015/7/30
Y1 - 2015/7/30
N2 - In order to upgrade the conventional mesophilic anaerobic digestion (MD) of waste activated sludge (WAS), a hyper-thermophilic (70 °C, stage I)-mesophilic (35 °C, stage II) temperature-phased anaerobic digestion system with a recycle system (TPAD-R) was constructed, with MD as a control. The accumulation of solids increased with shorter hydraulic retention time (HRT). Compared with MD, TPAD-R improved the reduction of solids by over 10%, and the removal rate of protein in TPAD-R increased by more than 20%. In stage I of TPAD-R an amount of organic matter was solubilized, in a range between 10 g L-1 and 20 g L-1, as soluble chemical oxygen demand (COD), and played an important role in enhancing hydrolysis and acidification. The specific hydrolysis and acidification rates of stage I reached their maximum values after a HRT of 10 days, 2.367 g COD per g VS per day and 1.120 g COD per g VS per day, respectively. Consequently, the methane yield in TPAD-R, primarily produced in stage II, was also improved, 29% higher than that in MD for a HRT of 10 days. Besides compensating for energy loss, TPAD-R obtained a higher net energy than MD, achieving a net energy which was 3.3 kJ g-1 VS more than that in MD for a HRT of 10 days. The TPAD-R proved to be efficient in upgrading the MD of WAS.
AB - In order to upgrade the conventional mesophilic anaerobic digestion (MD) of waste activated sludge (WAS), a hyper-thermophilic (70 °C, stage I)-mesophilic (35 °C, stage II) temperature-phased anaerobic digestion system with a recycle system (TPAD-R) was constructed, with MD as a control. The accumulation of solids increased with shorter hydraulic retention time (HRT). Compared with MD, TPAD-R improved the reduction of solids by over 10%, and the removal rate of protein in TPAD-R increased by more than 20%. In stage I of TPAD-R an amount of organic matter was solubilized, in a range between 10 g L-1 and 20 g L-1, as soluble chemical oxygen demand (COD), and played an important role in enhancing hydrolysis and acidification. The specific hydrolysis and acidification rates of stage I reached their maximum values after a HRT of 10 days, 2.367 g COD per g VS per day and 1.120 g COD per g VS per day, respectively. Consequently, the methane yield in TPAD-R, primarily produced in stage II, was also improved, 29% higher than that in MD for a HRT of 10 days. Besides compensating for energy loss, TPAD-R obtained a higher net energy than MD, achieving a net energy which was 3.3 kJ g-1 VS more than that in MD for a HRT of 10 days. The TPAD-R proved to be efficient in upgrading the MD of WAS.
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U2 - 10.1039/c5ra08811a
DO - 10.1039/c5ra08811a
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84939528346
VL - 5
SP - 68531
EP - 68541
JO - RSC Advances
JF - RSC Advances
SN - 2046-2069
IS - 84
ER -