Mechanical pretreatment of waste paper for biogas production

Abstract

In the anaerobic digestion of lignocellulosic materials such as waste paper, the accessibility of microorganisms to the fermentable sugars is restricted by their complex structure. A mechanical pretreatment with a Hollander beater was assessed in order to reduce the biomass particle size and to increase the feedstock’ specific surface area available to the microorganisms, and therefore improve the biogas yield. Pretreatment of paper waste for 60 min improves the methane yield by 21%, from a value of 210 ml/gVS corresponding to untreated paper waste to 254 ml/gVS. 30 min pretreatment have no significant effect on the methane yield. A response surface methodology was used to evaluate the effect of the beating time and feedstock/inoculum ratio on the methane yield. An optimum methane yield of 253 ml/gVS was achieved at 55 min of beating pretreatment and a F/I ratio of 0.3.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2017.06.040
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > School of Engineering and Technology > Mechanical, Biomedical & Design
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences
Additional Information: © 2017, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Publication ISSN: 1879-2456
Last Modified: 25 Mar 2024 08:30
Date Deposited: 11 Mar 2019 11:01
Full Text Link: http://www.open ... bcu.ac.uk/5189/
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2017-10-01
Published Online Date: 2017-07-05
Accepted Date: 2017-06-20
Authors: Rodriguez, C.
Alaswad, Abed (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-7828-7924)
Hassan, Zaki El
Olabi, A.G.

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