To establish a sustainable regional biomass use system, clarifying the present condition in the objective area and proposing a proper scenario to improve the present conditions are important. In this study, one suburban village where rice cultivation and livestock industries are popular in Southern Vietnam was selected as the objective area.Literature review, interviews at the site and field surveys were conducted to analyze material flow in agricultural production and excreta treatment of livestock. As a result, it was clarified that surface water quality at some points in the canals, rivers and wells of the village did not meet the national standard, and contributions of discharges of untreated livestock excreta to total nitrogen loads to lower water bodies were large (43% in total). From another aspect, some rice straw was burned without any effective use at the paddy fields. For this situation, two scenarios were proposed and designed as "Plan model 1" and "Plan model 2". The one is to increase biogas digesters in the village for treatment of untreated livestock excreta, decrease washing water rate poured into biogas digesters and use slurry from the biogas digester (hereafter, slurry) at paddy and non-paddy fields as a fertilizer. Another is to use unused rice straw for producing bio-ethanol. By these scenarios, the possibility was shown that approximately 327,000 Nm 3 /year of biogas and more than 240 kL/year ( ≓ 190 t/y) of bio-ethanol can be produced in objective village, 39% of nitrogen load to water bodies and 95% of application rate of chemical fertilizer to agricultural field could be decreased, and greenhouse gas emission rate could be decreased if bio-ethanol is substituted for fossil fuel.
Anaerobic co-digestion of sewage sludge with organic wastes has recently gained attention in small facilities. For small facilities, high solids sludge is suitable for transportation to a centralized co-digester, and direct utilization of the digested sludge as liquid fertilizer is recommended. Effects of high solid and hyperthermophilic pretreatment (80 °C, 24 hr) on anaerobic digestion at low temperatures and utilization as fertilizer are investigated by anaerobic/aerobic digestion and paddy soil incubation experiments. The volatile solids (VS)/total solids (TS) ratio decreases to 0.57(-), and the VS removal rate is approximately 0.7 (-) after long-term aerobic digestion. This is possibly the limitation of biodegradation, even with pretreatment, within engineering time. Substrate TS of 16% (not diluted), 10% and 5% are compared. The effect of substrate TS on biogas production performance (0.2–0.3 NL/gVS-added) is not statistically observed. Laboratory-scale paddy soil incubation experiments are performed fed with anaerobically digested pretreated or not pretreated dewatered sludge as liquid fertilizer. Pretreatment promotes nitrogen mineralization before use as fertilizer, which is helpful to prevent an outflow of surplus ammonia to the environment. The effect of soil type on microbial communities is more significant than that of anaerobically digested sludge conditions.
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