Biochemenergy: a project to turn an urban wastes treatment plant into biorefinery for the production of energy, chemicals and consumer's products with friendly environmental impact

Montoneri, Enzo; Mainero, Davide; Boffa, Vittorio; Perrone, Davide; Montoneri, Corrado

doi:10.1504/ijgenvi.2011.043528

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“…Clearly, due to their origin SBO appear favored products for economic and environmental reasons. Use of SBO as animal feed supplement allows valorizing UBW as source of high added value products, thus decreasing their disposal cost (Montoneri et al, 2011b). On the contrary, use of HS would contribute to the depletion of fossil sources.…”

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“…This would be the first step to build a new scenario by which UBW treatment plan were turned into biorefinery for the production of biofuel, chemicals and consumer's products. Large economic and environmental benefits have been already estimated for this scenario (Montoneri et al, 2011b).…”

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“…They may be obtained in a wide variety of chemical composition and properties depending on the UBW sourcing material. They have been demonstrated suitable for a wide variety of applications in chemical and environmental technology (Montoneri et al, 2011b), and in agriculture (Sortino et al, 2012). Investigation of SBO as supplement for animal diet has not been carried out yet.…”

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Compost Derived Substances Decrease Feed Protein N Mineralization in Swine Cecal Fermentation

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Objectives of this study were to investigate urban biowastes as sustainable source of soluble biobased products (SBO) for use in animal diet and, possibly, to assess product chemical nature-performance relationships. Thus, five different materials sourced from biowastes processed by anaerobic and/or aerobic fermentation were treated to yield five different SBO. The products were first characterized for their chemical nature. Afterwards, they were tested as diet supplements to modulate pig's cecal fermentation of a protein feed. In vitro fermentation of the protein feed was performed using the cecal content collected from slaughtered pigs as incubation liquor. The experimental plan comprised 29 treatments distributed over the 5 SBO used at 5-6 doses each in the 0.1-1.4% concentration range, compared to a SBO free control. During the 24 h in vitro fermentation, gas and liquor samples were analyzed for total gas volume vs. time production, and for ammonia and volatile fatty acids concentration. The results showed the investigated SBO to be significantly different for both their chemical composition and in their effects on the measured fermentation indicators. All materials showed significant effects already at the lowest 0.1% concentration. However the SBO isolated from composted residues decreased ammonia production, whereas the SBO isolated from the digestate of the food residues' anaerobic treatment had the opposite effect. Ammonia production was found to be directly correlated with isobutyric and isovaleric production. The results clearly pointed out reduced proteolysis and N mineralization by 7-17% caused by compost sourced SBO. These findings have relevant implications for the economics and environmental impact of the animal production industry.

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Compost Derived Substances Decrease Feed Protein N Mineralization in Swine Cecal Fermentation

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“…2). 276 A review on the number and types of plants worldwide that perform anaerobic digestion, alone or coupled to composting, is given in the literature. 277 The ACEA plant processes MBW collected from an area of 2200 km 2 populated by 800 000 inhabitants distributed over 100 municipalities and amounts to about 50 000 tons per year.…”

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Pre-treatment and extraction techniques for recovery of added value compounds from wastes throughout the agri-food chain

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“…Biowaste treatment plants (Montoneri et al, 2011) become biorefineries, producing bio-based fuel and chemicals. SBO replace products from fossil sources.…”

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Pigs’ Husbandry as Case Study to Test Effects of Vegetable Residues’ Hydrolysates on Animals

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Biochemenergy: a project to turn an urban wastes treatment plant into biorefinery for the production of energy, chemicals and consumer's products with friendly environmental impact

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Compost Derived Substances Decrease Feed Protein N Mineralization in Swine Cecal Fermentation

Compost Derived Substances Decrease Feed Protein N Mineralization in Swine Cecal Fermentation

Pre-treatment and extraction techniques for recovery of added value compounds from wastes throughout the agri-food chain

Pigs’ Husbandry as Case Study to Test Effects of Vegetable Residues’ Hydrolysates on Animals

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