Microbiome Characterization after Aerobic Digestate Reactivation of Anaerobically Digested Sewage Sludge

Autor: Pascal Otto, Mozhdeh Alipoursarbani, Daniel Torrent, Adriel Latorre-Pérez, Thomas Paust, Alfred Albert, Christian Abendroth
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Fermentation; Volume 9; Issue 5; Pages: 471
ISSN: 2311-5637
DOI: 10.3390/fermentation9050471
Popis: A demonstrator plant of a recently patented process for improved sludge degradation has been implemented on a municipal scale. In a 1500 m3 sewage sludge digester, an intermediary stage with aerobic sewage sludge reactivation was implemented. This oxic activation increased the biogas yield by up to 55% with a 25% reduction of the remaining fermentation residue volume. Furthermore, this process allowed an NH4-N removal of over 90%. Additionally, 16S rRNA gene amplicon high-throughput sequencing of the reactivated digestate showed a reduced number of methane-forming archaea compared to the main digester. Multiple ammonium-oxidizing bacteria were detected. This includes multiple genera belonging to the family Chitinophagaceae (the highest values reached 18.8% of the DNA sequences) as well as a small amount of the genus Candidatus nitrosoglobus (
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