Effect of bamboo hydrochar on anaerobic digestion of fish processing waste for biogas production

Ungyong Choe; Ahmed M Mustafa; Hongjian Lin; Jie Xu; Kuichuan Sheng

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2019.03.084

Effect of bamboo hydrochar on anaerobic digestion of fish processing waste for biogas production

Bioresour Technol. 2019 Jul:283:340-349. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.03.084. Epub 2019 Mar 19.

Authors

Ungyong Choe¹, Ahmed M Mustafa², Hongjian Lin³, Jie Xu³, Kuichuan Sheng⁴

Affiliations

¹ College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China; Faculty of Environmental Science, University of Science, Yusheng Scientist Road, Unjong District, Pyongyang 00850, Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
² College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China; Department of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt.
³ College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
⁴ College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China. Electronic address: kcsheng@zju.edu.cn.

PMID: 30925314
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.03.084

Abstract

The effect of hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) temperature and bamboo hydrochar (BHC) addition on biogas production in anaerobic digestion of fish processing waste (FPW) was studied. HTC temperature (200-280 °C) had significant effects on methane yield and content, but the BHC had little effects. The maximum biogas yield observed with HTC at 200 °C and a BHC adding ratio of 1:2 (dry mass ratio of FPW to BHC) reached 292 L/kg volatile solids (VS), which were 64% higher than the control group with only FPW, with the maximum methane yield of 219 L/kg-VS and highest net methane energy yield of 3410 kJ/kg-VS. The obtained results can be used to design an efficient anaerobic digestion process for treating and effectively utilizing fish processing waste.

Keywords: Ammonium nitrogen inhibition; Bamboo hydrochar; Biogas production; COD decreasing; Fish processing waste (FWP); Methane content.

MeSH terms

Anaerobiosis
Animals
Biofuels*
Bioreactors
Carbon / metabolism*
Fishes / metabolism*
Hot Temperature
Methane / biosynthesis
Sasa / metabolism*

Substances

Biofuels
Carbon
Methane