Influence of pre-treatments and anaerobic co-digestion of slaughterhouse waste with vegetable, fruit and flower market wastes for enhanced methane production

verfasst von
Velusamy Mozhiarasi, Christopher Josef Speier, Pious Michealammal Benish Rose, Dirk Weichgrebe, Srinivasan Shanmugham Venkatachalam
Abstract

Considerable amounts of slaughterhouse wastes (SHW) are generated in Indian urban centres causing serious environmental issues that demand effective treatment and disposal. The present study evaluates the effect of pasteurization (70 °C for 1 h) and extrusion pre-treatment on pathogen removal and methane production from SHW in anaerobic mono- and co-digestion with mixed vegetable, fruit and flower market wastes (VMW) under controlled batch anaerobic digestion (AD) tests. The complete destruction of pathogen was observed in post-pasteurized SHW, whereas the post-extruded SHW showed significant reduction (p < 0.05) in pathogen concentration (with a Salmonella count of 29.3 × 103 CFUs/g). The results of AD test revealed that the maximum specific methane yield (SMY) of 273.2 mLN/g oDM was obtained by anaerobic co-digestion of SHW:VMW in 1:3 proportion. Further enhancement in the SMY was obtained with extrusion pre-treatment of SHW (SHWE) by 11.5% (i.e. 304.8 mLN/g oDM) in 1:3 proportion of SHWE:VMW. Modified Gompertz and logistics models fitted the kinetic data of AD process well. Results confirmed that the proposed extrusion pre-treatment of SHW coupled with anaerobic co-digestion improved the oDM reduction, methane potentials and pathogen removal, thereby making it a suitable pre-treatment during anaerobic co-treatment of SHW with VMW from centralized wholesale markets from urban centres.

Organisationseinheit(en)
Institut für Siedlungswasserwirtschaft und Abfalltechnik
Externe Organisation(en)
Central Leather Research Institute
Typ
Artikel
Journal
BIOMASS CONVERSION AND BIOREFINERY
Band
13
Seiten
7079-7096
Anzahl der Seiten
18
ISSN
2190-6815
Publikationsdatum
06.2023
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Erneuerbare Energien, Nachhaltigkeit und Umwelt
Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung
SDG 7 – Erschwingliche und saubere Energie
Elektronische Version(en)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-021-01709-1 (Zugang: Geschlossen)