This study investigated the feasibility of anaerobic co-digestion of giant reed (GR) inoculated with waste manure as a co-substrate for biogas production. The performance of co-digestion was evaluated in 4 anaerobic digesters operated in batch mode at different conditions. The effects of alkali pretreatment with NaOH (4% w/v) solution, inoculum type, and thermal condition were studied. The results demonstrated that the alkali-pretreatment of GR enhanced the biogas generation by about 15% at mesophilic conditions. Thermophilic conditions enhanced the biogas recovery from both alkali-free and alkali pretreated GR by 15% and 127%, respectively. The kinetic study of the co-digestion process of GR for biogas recovery suggested a significant agreement between measured and predicted values obtained by Modified Gompertz Model with correlation coefficients ≥ 0.98 indicating favorable conditions for the co-digestion of inoculated GR.
Wastewater management is considered to be a great challenge, particularly in towns and cities with rapidly growing population. The study aimed to assess the Al-Muamirah WW treatment plant (WWTP), located in the Babylon governorate of Iraq, in terms of its hydraulic loading as a quality performance indicator. The findings showed that there will be a significant deficit in the capacity of the plant of 20%, 32% and 37% in the year of 2024, and will cumulatively arise in 2030 to become 26%, 41.5% and 47.7% for suggested growth rates of 1.27%, 2.5% and 3.95%, respectively. The outcomes of expected amounts of daily discarded wastewater in terms of estimated population were analyzed using the ANOVA test and it was found that the population growth ratio has a significant impact on the generated inflow, as f (2,30) = 3.713, and p= 0.019 < 0.05.
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