High-rate anaerobic treatment of digestate using fixed film reactors


Ülgüdür N., Bayramoğlu T. H., Uludağ-Demirer S., Demirer G.

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION, vol.252, pp.1622-1632, 2019 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 252
  • Publication Date: 2019
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/j.envpol.2019.06.115
  • Journal Name: ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.1622-1632
  • Keywords: Digestate, Management, High-rate, Anaerobic, Treatment, Biogas, WASTE-WATER TREATMENT, DAIRY MANURE, AMMONIA REMOVAL, METHANE YIELD, BLACK WATER, START-UP, PLANT
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

The effluent stream of the anaerobic digestion processes, the digestate, accommodates high residual organic content that needs to be further treated before discharge. Anaerobic treatment of digestate would not only reduce the residual organic compounds in digestate but also has a potential to capture the associated biogas. High-rate anaerobic reactor configurations can treat the waste streams using lower hydraulic retention times which requires less footprint opposed to the conventional completely stirred tank reactors. This study investigated the high-rate anaerobic treatment performance and the associated biogas capture from the digestate of a manure mixture composed of 90% laying hen and 10% cattle manures in fixed-film reactors. The results indicated that it was possible to reduce total chemical oxygen demand content of the digestate by 57-62% in 1.3-1.4 days of hydraulic retention time. The corresponding biogas yields obtained were in the range of 0.395-0.430 L-biogas/gVS(added) which were found to be comparable to many raw feedstocks. Moreover, significant total phosphorus reduction (36-47%) and greenhouse gas capture (over 14.5-18.1 tCO(2)e/d per m(3) digestate) were also recorded in the anaerobic fixed-film reactors. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.