Continuous operation of thermophilic food waste digestion with side-stream ammonia stripping
Continuous operation of thermophilic food waste digestion with side-stream ammonia stripping
Digesters fed on food waste (high nitrogen content) were operated successfully over an extended period using sidestream biogas stripping to control total ammonia nitrogen (TAN) below inhibitory concentrations. This is the first time biogas stripping has been used to achieve stable thermophilic operation with undiluted substrate of this type. Stripping columns operated batch-wise treated the equivalent of 1.7-4.1% of digester contents daily at pH >10 and 70 oC, with no detrimental effect on digestion. TKN removal was 54%, with potential to recover 3.5 kg N tonne-1 substrate. When stripping was stopped in one digester TAN increased, accompanied by rising propionic acid concentrations with progressive instability observed from 2.5 g N L-1. Eventual failure as TAN approached 5 g N L-1 was due to rapid acetic acid accumulation, resulting in a fall in pH to below 6.5. The pattern of VFA accumulation indicated failure of both acetoclastic methanogenesis and acetate oxidation.
anaerobic digestion, Ammonia, Food waste, biogas stripping, side-stream
611-620
Zhang, Wei
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Heaven, Sonia
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Banks, Charles J.
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November 2017
Zhang, Wei
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Heaven, Sonia
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Banks, Charles J.
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Zhang, Wei, Heaven, Sonia and Banks, Charles J.
(2017)
Continuous operation of thermophilic food waste digestion with side-stream ammonia stripping.
Bioresource Technology, 244 (Part 1), .
(doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2017.07.180).
Abstract
Digesters fed on food waste (high nitrogen content) were operated successfully over an extended period using sidestream biogas stripping to control total ammonia nitrogen (TAN) below inhibitory concentrations. This is the first time biogas stripping has been used to achieve stable thermophilic operation with undiluted substrate of this type. Stripping columns operated batch-wise treated the equivalent of 1.7-4.1% of digester contents daily at pH >10 and 70 oC, with no detrimental effect on digestion. TKN removal was 54%, with potential to recover 3.5 kg N tonne-1 substrate. When stripping was stopped in one digester TAN increased, accompanied by rising propionic acid concentrations with progressive instability observed from 2.5 g N L-1. Eventual failure as TAN approached 5 g N L-1 was due to rapid acetic acid accumulation, resulting in a fall in pH to below 6.5. The pattern of VFA accumulation indicated failure of both acetoclastic methanogenesis and acetate oxidation.
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Accepted/In Press date: 29 July 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 3 August 2017
Published date: November 2017
Keywords:
anaerobic digestion, Ammonia, Food waste, biogas stripping, side-stream
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/415001
ISSN: 0960-8524
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