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Posttreatment of olive mill wastewater by immobilized TiO2 photocatalysis

A photocatalytic reactor with UV/TiO2 was used for the post-treatment of olive mill wastewater after anaerobic digestion. A factorial experimental design was adopted to determine the statistical significance of each parameter tested, namely initial COD, pH, treatment time and recirculation flow, and possible interactions, in three response variables: phenols, colour, and COD removals. Removal efficiencies of 9...

Biomethanation potential of biological and other wastes

Anaerobic technology has been traditionally applied for the treatment of carbon rich wastewater and organic residues. Anaerobic processes can be fully integrated in the biobased economy concept for resource recovery. After a brief introduction about applications of anaerobic processes to industrial wastewater treatment, agriculture feedstock and organic fraction of municipal solid waste, the position of anaerob...

Quantitative image analysis for the characterization of microbial aggregates in...

Quantitative image analysis techniques have gained an undeniable role in several fields of research during the last decade. In the field of biological wastewater treatment (WWT) processes, several computer applications have been developed for monitoring microbial entities, either as individual cells or in different types of aggregates. New descriptors have been defined that are more reliable, objective, and use...

Evaluation of different strategies to maximize biogas production from algae

Seaweeds (macroalgae) are a promising substrate for biogas production due to the high percentage of carbohydrates and high growth rate. Therefore, the biogas produced from the anaerobic digestion of seaweeds is a sustainable and renewable alternative source of bioenergy. Seaweeds are available in coastal areas and may also be produced in aquacultures. This work presents results of the biochemical methane potent...

Strategies to optimize methane production from non-conventional waste

Biochemical methane potential of brewery wastes and co-digestion with glycerol

Beer production generates huge amounts of streams with high energetic potential. This work investigates the energetic valorization of the brewery wastes, trub (T) and spent grain (SG), by anaerobic digestion processes. T had a higher BMP (251±2 L CH4 kg-1 COD) than SG (191±3 L CH4 kg-1 COD). The methane yield (72±1%) and methane production rate (1.08±0.10 d-1) were also higher for T because of the recalcitrant ...

Evaluation of the biomethane potential of solid fish waste

Manufacturing processes in fish canning industries generate a considerable amount of solid waste that can be digested anaerobically. The aim of this research was to study the biochemical methane potential of different solid fish waste. For tuna, sardine and needle fish waste, around 0.47 g COD–CH4/g CODadded was obtained in batch experiments with 1%TS; whereas for mackerel waste, the methane production attained...

Anaerobic biodegradability of category 2 animal by-products : methane potential...

Category 2 animal by-products that need to be sterilized with steam pressure according Regulation (EC) 1774/2002 are studied. In this work, 2 sets of experiments were performed in mesophilic conditions: (i) biomethane potential determination testing 0.5%, 2.0% and 5.0% total solids (TS), using sludge from the anaerobic digester of a wastewater treatment plant as inoculum; (ii) biodegradability tests at a consta...

Strategies for lipids and phenolics degradation in the anaerobic treatment of o...

Strategies are proposed for the anaerobic treatment of lipid and phenolic-rich effluents, specifically the raw olive mill wastewater (OMW). Two reactors were operated under OMW influent concentrations from 5 to 48 g COD L-1 and Hydraulic Retention Time between 10 and 5 days. An intermittent feeding was applied whenever the reactors showed a severe decay in the methane yield. This strategy improved the mineraliz...

Biomethanation potential of macroalgae Ulva spp. and Gracilaria spp. and in co-...

Biochemical methane potential of four species of Ulva and Gracilaria genus was assessed in batch assays at mesophilic temperature. The results indicate a higher specific methane production (per volatile solids) for one of the Ulva sp. compared with other macroalgae and for tests running with 2.5% of total solids (196 ± 9 L CH4 kg−1 VS). Considering that macroalgae can potentially be a post treatment of municipa...