Enhancing the production of biogas through anaerobic co-digestion of agricultural waste and chemical pre-treatments

<p dir="ltr">Large amounts of agricultural solid wastes (ASWs) and animal dung are produced annually causing serious environmental problem that requires proper treatment. The present study proposes a strategy for optimizing the anaerobic co-digestion of ASWs and cow dung (CD), identi...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Fares Almomani (12585685) (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Rahul R. Bhosale (6467102) (author)
منشور في: 2020
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الملخص:<p dir="ltr">Large amounts of agricultural solid wastes (ASWs) and animal dung are produced annually causing serious environmental problem that requires proper treatment. The present study proposes a strategy for optimizing the anaerobic co-digestion of ASWs and cow dung (CD), identifies the key factors governing the co-digestion performance and evaluates the effect of NaHCO<sub>3</sub> alkalinity treatment on improving the economy and performance of anaerobic digestion (AD). The results revealed that the highest cumulative methane production (CMP) of 297.99 NL/kgVS can be generated by co-digestion of ASWs and CD at a ratio of 60:40. Further improvement was achieved via alkalinity treatment with 1.0 g of NaHCO<sub>3</sub>/gVS leading to decrease in lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose contents of feedstock by 3.5%, 10.5% and 15.9%, respectively, converting them to soluble fractions and improving the CMP by 11.2–29.7% based on substrate quality. The improved CMP in the chemically treated substrates reflects a 19% increase in the generated revenue. The kinetics of the AD process was successfully fitted to modified Gompertz model with very low standard deviation residuals (SDR) ≤ 5.21 and R<sup>2</sup> ≥ 0.979. Results confirm that the proposed strategy is an effective method for producing biogas from co-digestion of ASWs and CD.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Chemosphere<br>License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.126805" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.126805</a></p>