| Title | System integration of hydrothermal liquefaction and anaerobic digestion for wet biomass valorization: Biodegradability and microbial syntrophy |
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| ID_Doc | 12524 |
| Authors | Mao, LW; Tsui, TH; Zhang, JX; Dai, YJ; Tong, YW |
| Title | System integration of hydrothermal liquefaction and anaerobic digestion for wet biomass valorization: Biodegradability and microbial syntrophy |
| Year | 2021 |
| Published | |
| Abstract | Sewage sludge treatment & disposal pose environmental challenges in populated-dense urban environments. Due to its poor digestibility and dewaterability, sewage sludge contains high water content and concentrated nutrients (carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus) even after conditioning and mechanical thickening. Regarding this, a pretreatment step and downstream anaerobic digestion (AD) are often required. To meet our societal goal towards a circular economy, system integration of hydrothermal pretreatment and AD now present an attractive approach for recovering resources from the wet sewage sludge biomass. In this study, such system integration together with struvite precipitation was applied for valorizing sewage sludge. Firstly, hydrothermal conditions of different temperatures (160 degrees C-230 degrees C) and duration (2 h-12 h) were compared to their performance of nutrients solubilization. Subsequently, the hydrothermal condition of 220 degrees C-3 h was selected for further investigations of struvite recovery and bioenergy production. Through AD comparisons, the integrated process improved the ultimate biomethane yield by 38%. Interestingly, a lag phase occurred in the midst of the AD, which indicated the need for microbial acclimatization after the hydrothermal process. The long-term microbial monitoring revealed the efficient biomethane re-generation was closely related to the late enrichment of Syntrophus for potential H2-syntrophy. Therefore, on one hand, this study investigated an efficient and integrated approach of sewage sludge valorization. On other hand, it uncovered the microbial bottlenecks and potential biotechnological means for further system improvement. Further research about nutrients speciation in the integrated system would be desired. |
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