Psychrophilic Full Scale Tubular Digester Operating over Eight Years: Complete Performance Evaluation and Microbiological Population
| Autor: | German Zafra, Jaime Martí-Herrero, Liliana del Pilar Castro, Alejandra Puentes, Christian Gomez, Jaime Jaimes-Estévez, Antonio Morán, Humberto Escalante Hernández, Guillermo Pelaz |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Control and Optimization
Hydraulic retention time 020209 energy Population Energy Engineering and Power Technology low cost digester psychrophilic anaerobic digestion thermal behavior 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences lcsh:Technology Animal science Biogas 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Psychrophile education Engineering (miscellaneous) Effluent 0105 earth and related environmental sciences education.field_of_study Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Chemistry lcsh:T Chemical oxygen demand Anaerobic digestion Slurry Energy (miscellaneous) |
| Zdroj: | Energies, Vol 14, Iss 151, p 151 (2021) Energies; Volume 14; Issue 1; Pages: 151 |
| ISSN: | 1996-1073 |
| Popis: | Most biogas plants in the world run under psychrophilic conditions and are operated by small and medium farmers. There is a gap of knowledge on the performance of these systems after several years of operation. The aim of this research is to provide a complete evaluation of a psychrophilic, low-cost, tubular digester operated for eight years. The thermal performance was monitored for 50 days, and parameters such as pH, total volatile fatty acid (tVFA), chemical oxygen demand (COD) and volatile solids (VS) were measured every week for the influent and effluent. The digester operated at a stabilized slurry temperature of around 17.7 °C, with a mean organic load rate (OLR) equal to 0.52 kg VS/m3digester *d and an estimated hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 25 days. The VS reduction in the digester was around 77.58% and the COD reduction was 67 ± 3%, with a mean value for the effluent of 3.31 ± 1.20 g COD/Lt, while the tVFA decreased by 83.6 ± 15.5% and the presence of coliforms decreased 10.5%. A BioMethane potential test (BMP) for the influent and effluent showed that the digester reached a specific methane production of 0.40 Nm3CH4/kg VS and a 0.21 Nm3CH4/m3digester d with 63.1% CH4 in the biogas. These results, together with a microbiological analysis, show stabilized anaerobic digestion and a biogas production that was higher than expected for the psychrophilic range and the short HRT; this may have been due to the presence of an anaerobic digestion microorganism consortium which was extremely well-adapted to psychrophilic conditions over the eight-year study period. |
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