Anaerobic digestion of food waste through the operation of a mesophilic two-phase pilot scale digester - Assessment of variable loadings on system performance

作者：Grimberg S J^*; Hilderbrandt D; Kinnunen M; Rogers S

来源：Bioresource Technology, 2015, 178: 226-229.

DOI：10.1016/j.biortech.2014.09.001

• Two-stage anaerobic digestion
• Food waste

Single and two-phase operations were compared at mesophilic operating conditions using a digester system consisting of three 5-m(3) reactors treating food waste generated daily within the university campus kitchens. When normalizing the methane production to the daily feedstock characteristics, significantly greater methane was produced during two-phase mesophilic digestion compared to the single-stage operation (methane yield of 380 vs 446-L CH4 kg VS-1; 359 vs 481-L CH4 kg COD-1 removed for single vs two stage operation). The fermentation reactor could be maintained reliably even under very low loading rates (0.79 +/- 0.16 kg COD m(-3) d(-1)) maintaining a steady state pH of 5.2.

• 出版日期2015-2