Nanoparticles of magnetite passivated with gelatin and starch were synthesised using a co-precipitation technique. The nanoparticles were characterised using ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis), dynamic light scattering (DLS), Zeta potential, transmission electron microscope (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). The UVvis spectra showed characteristic surface plasmon resonance of magnetite nanoparticles. The DLS results showed the nanoparticles to have average hydrodynamic diameters of 138 ± 2 and 283 ± 21 nm for particles passivated with gelatin and starch, respectively. The stability in a colloidal solution was greater in nanoparticles passivated with gelatin than nanoparticles obtained with starch, as can be seen by their Zeta potential value (−31 ± 2 and −16 ± 0.5 mV, respectively). According to the TEM evaluation, the use of gelatin allowed to obtain nanoparticles with a spherical morphology and an average size of 10 ± 2 nm. However, when using starch the nanoparticles exhibited diverse morphologies with an average size of 25 ± 7 nm. The XRD results confirmed the crystalline structure of the samples, which showed crystallite sizes of 14.90 and 24.43 nm for nanoparticles passivated with gelatin and starch, respectively. FTIR analysis proved the establishment of interactions between functional groups of biopolymers and magnetite nanoparticles.
El objetivo del trabajo fue determinar el potencial bioquímico de metano de pollinaza en combinación con una alta concentración de propionato, empleando un consorcio microbiano previamente adaptado a elevadas cantidades de este metabolito. La pollinaza al 3 % de sólidos totales (ST) con 4895 ppm de propionato fue degradada en condiciones mesofílicas empleando microcosmos con un volumen de trabajo de 250 mL. Los resultados del rendimiento de metano acumulado indicaron un comportamiento triple sigmoidal; lo cual podría atribuirse a la diferencia en las velocidades de degradación de los componentes, tales como macromoléculas y ácidos grasos volátiles. El potencial bioquímico de metano fue de 364,52 mL CH 4 g SValimentados-1. Palabras clave: biogás; digestión anaeróbica; Potencial Bioquímico de Metano; modelo de Gompertz.
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