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Preliminary trials of in situ ammonia stripping from source segregated domestic food waste digestate using biogas: effect of temperature and flow rate

Preliminary trials of in situ ammonia stripping from source segregated domestic food waste digestate using biogas: effect of temperature and flow rate
Preliminary trials of in situ ammonia stripping from source segregated domestic food waste digestate using biogas: effect of temperature and flow rate
Batch experiments to remove ammonia from food waste digestate were set up, and preliminary runs undertaken. These experiments were based on gas stripping in a heated column reactor; the effects of different temperatures (35, 55 and 70 °C) and gas flow rates (0.125, 0.250 and 0.375 min?1) were considered using biogas as the stripping gas. At 35 °C, an increase in the ammonia removal rate by approximately 4.5 times was observed when the flow rate increased from 0.125 to 0.375 min?1. At 55 °C, and flow rates of 0.250 and 0.375 min?1, ammonia removal of 3.46 and 9.38% day?1, respectively, were achieved. The highest values of removal of ammonia were reached at 70 °C: 18.4 and 10.4% day?1, for 0.250 and 0.375 min?1 flow rates, respectively.
ammonia removal, anaerobic digestion, food waste, stripping
0960-8524
9486-9492
de la Rubia, M. Ángeles
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Walker, Mark
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Heaven, Sonia
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Banks, Charls J.
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Borja, Rafael
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de la Rubia, M. Ángeles
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Walker, Mark
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Heaven, Sonia
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Banks, Charls J.
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Borja, Rafael
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de la Rubia, M. Ángeles, Walker, Mark, Heaven, Sonia, Banks, Charls J. and Borja, Rafael (2010) Preliminary trials of in situ ammonia stripping from source segregated domestic food waste digestate using biogas: effect of temperature and flow rate. Bioresource Technology, 101 (24), 9486-9492. (doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2010.07.096). (PMID:20709537)

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Batch experiments to remove ammonia from food waste digestate were set up, and preliminary runs undertaken. These experiments were based on gas stripping in a heated column reactor; the effects of different temperatures (35, 55 and 70 °C) and gas flow rates (0.125, 0.250 and 0.375 min?1) were considered using biogas as the stripping gas. At 35 °C, an increase in the ammonia removal rate by approximately 4.5 times was observed when the flow rate increased from 0.125 to 0.375 min?1. At 55 °C, and flow rates of 0.250 and 0.375 min?1, ammonia removal of 3.46 and 9.38% day?1, respectively, were achieved. The highest values of removal of ammonia were reached at 70 °C: 18.4 and 10.4% day?1, for 0.250 and 0.375 min?1 flow rates, respectively.

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Published date: December 2010
Keywords: ammonia removal, anaerobic digestion, food waste, stripping

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Local EPrints ID: 184681
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/184681
ISSN: 0960-8524
PURE UUID: b9bed354-96e7-4262-a4fc-438264e4ba33
ORCID for Sonia Heaven: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7798-4683
ORCID for Charls J. Banks: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6795-814X

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Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:52

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Author: M. Ángeles de la Rubia
Author: Mark Walker
Author: Sonia Heaven ORCID iD
Author: Charls J. Banks ORCID iD
Author: Rafael Borja

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