Optimization of water replacement during leachate recirculation for two-phase food waste anaerobic digestion system with off-gas diversion

Liwen Luo; Guneet Kaur; Jun Zhao; Jun Zhou; Suyun Xu; Sunita Varjani; Jonathan W. C. Wong

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2021.125234

Optimization of water replacement during leachate recirculation for two-phase food waste anaerobic digestion system with off-gas diversion

Liwen Luo, Guneet Kaur, Jun Zhao, Jun Zhou, Suyun Xu, Sunita Varjani, Jonathan W. C. Wong^*

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Abstract

An integrated two-phase AD with acidogenic off-gas diversion from a leach bed reactor to an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket was developed for improving methane production. However, this system had its own technical limitation such as mass transfer efficiency for solid-state treatment. In order to optimize the mass transfer in this two phase AD system, leachate recirculation with various water replacement rates regulating the total solids contents (TS) at 12.5%, 15%, and 17.5% was aim to investigate its effect on methane generation. The solubilization of food waste was increased with decreasing TS content, while the enzymatic hydrolysis showed the opposite trend. A TS contents of 15% presented the best acidogenic performance with the highest hydrogen yield of 30.3 L H₂/kg VS_added, which subsequently resulted in the highest methane production. The present study provides an easy approach to enhance food waste degradation in acidogenic phase and energy conversion in methanogenic phase simultaneously.

Original language	English
Article number	125234
Number of pages	8
Journal	Bioresource Technology
Volume	335
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2021.125234
Publication status	Published - Sept 2021

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Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Waste Management and Disposal

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Food waste
Hydrogen
Leach bed reactor
Methane
Solids content

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