Effect of Hydrothermal Pretreatment on Volatile Fatty Acids Production from Source-Separated Organics

Kakar, Farokh Laqa; Koupaie, E. Hosseini; Hafez, Hisham; Elbeshbishy, Elsayed

doi:10.3390/pr7090576

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“…However, from around day 20, in line with the drop in H 2 level, acetate and lactate became the dominant acids in both reactors, but with differences in the total amounts depending on the initial inoculum. At this time, the pH reached 3.8 ± 0.1 in WW-F and 4.0 ± 0.2 in CO-F and total gas production was very low (<1 g C in gas /L substrate d in WW-F; <2 g C in gas /L substrate d in CO-F), in line with previous studies on hydrolysis of food waste [6,10,20,42,43]. In contrast, in the sludge reactors (CO-S and WW-S), methane content and pH did not drop to similarly low levels when operating at initial parameters of OLR 14.2 kg VS/m 3 /d and HRT 5 days.…”

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“…The effect of inoculum source in processing food waste for acid production has also been evaluated in previous studies, although mainly in batch mode. Those studies identified inoculum source as a detrimental factor for process performance [4,18,21,43], as also found in the present study. However, based on the Illumina sequencing results, the inoculum source appeared to have minor effects on the development of the microbial community structure.…”

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“…In these processes, a difference was noted for the processes started with the different inocula, with the inoculum from the co-digestion plant resulting Another limiting factor for optimizing acetate production from the food waste could be the level of available DOC in the substrate. One possible way to increase available DOC would be to pretreat the substrate, shown in a previous study to increase the DOC and VFA production from source-separated organic waste [43]. To test the effect of higher DOC on acetate production, additional DOC in the form of glucose was added to the substrate for CO-F during the last 25 days of operation.…”

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Inoculum Source Determines Acetate and Lactate Production during Anaerobic Digestion of Sewage Sludge and Food Waste

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Acetate production from food waste or sewage sludge was evaluated in four semi-continuous anaerobic digestion processes. To examine the importance of inoculum and substrate for acid production, two different inoculum sources (a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) and a co-digestion plant treating food and industry waste) and two common substrates (sewage sludge and food waste) were used in process operations. The processes were evaluated with regard to the efficiency of hydrolysis, acidogenesis, acetogenesis, and methanogenesis and the microbial community structure was determined. Feeding sewage sludge led to mixed acid fermentation and low total acid yield, whereas feeding food waste resulted in the production of high acetate and lactate yields. Inoculum from WWTP with sewage sludge substrate resulted in maintained methane production, despite a low hydraulic retention time. For food waste, the process using inoculum from WWTP produced high levels of lactate (30 g/L) and acetate (10 g/L), while the process initiated with inoculum from the co-digestion plant had higher acetate (25 g/L) and lower lactate (15 g/L) levels. The microbial communities developed during acid production consisted of the major genera Lactobacillus (92-100%) with food waste substrate, and Roseburia (44-45%) and Fastidiosipila (16-36%) with sewage sludge substrate. Use of the outgoing material (hydrolysates) in a biogas production system resulted in a non-significant increase in bio-methane production (+5-20%) compared with direct biogas production from food waste and sewage sludge.by slower-growing bacteria that thrive best at neutral pH. These differences in reaction speed and pH optimum allow AD to be divided into two separate production steps, where H 2 and VFA are generated in a primary acid reactor and bio-methane in a secondary reactor. This two-stage approach has been shown to optimize the overall AD process and increase methane yield [3][4][5][6][7][8]. It also allows additional applications, such as the production of bio-hydrogen or of a range of VFA that can be extracted and used as "green" chemical feedstock for further conversion [8,9]. The typical VFA composition in an acidic AD reactor is a mixture dominated by acetate, propionate, butyrate, and valerate [10-13], but it can also be dominated by acetate, butyrate, and H 2 [14], or mainly consist of lactate and/or acetate [15,16]. The amount and type of acid produced depend on both chemical, technical, and microbiological parameters, often interlinked. Parameters shown to be of importance include, for example, reactor configuration, substrate composition and pre-treatment, hydraulic retention time (HRT), temperature, pH, as well as the choice of inoculum and final microbial composition [10,11,[17][18][19][20][21][22].Among the different acids that can be produced in a two-stage set-up, acetate is a highly interesting compound. In addition to being an energy carrier between different stages within AD, it can be used for the production of value-added products such as biopolymers, com...

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Inoculum Source Determines Acetate and Lactate Production during Anaerobic Digestion of Sewage Sludge and Food Waste

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“…The Special Issue showcases ten full-length original research articles [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22], one short communication [23], and one review article [24] covering different aspects of various processes for bioenergy and resource recovery from biowaste. Specifically, the accepted manuscripts covered a range of essential topics in the areas of anaerobic digestion, microbial fermentation, and thermochemical conversion targeting various value-added resources, including biogas, syngas, bio-oil, and organic acids ( Figure 1).…”

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“…Notably, the application of strong base anionexchange resin could alleviate feedback inhibition of caproate, which can potentially provide a simple solution compared to other approaches previously reported in the literature, including electrodialysis. Kakar et al [20] investigated temperatures and retention times for the application of the thermal hydrolysis process as a feedstock pretreatment method for improving fermentative…”

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