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Biomethanation of Sewage Sludge with Food Waste Leachate Via Co-Digestion

  • Shin, Jingyeong (School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kim, Young Beom (School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Jeon, Jong Hun (School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Choi, Sangki (School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Park, In Kyu (Environmental Corporation of Gwangju) ;
  • Kim, Young Mo (School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Received : 2017.05.17
  • Accepted : 2017.06.18
  • Published : 2017.08.28
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Abstract

Anaerobic mono- and co-digestion of sewage sludge and food waste leachate (FWL) were performed by assessing methane production and characterizing microbial communities. Anaerobic digestion (AD) of waste activated sludge (WAS) alone produced the lowest methane ($281ml\;CH_4$), but an approximately 80% increase in methane production was achieved via co-digestion of WAS and FWL ($506ml\;CH_4$). There were less differences in the diversity of bacterial communities in anaerobic digesters, while archaeal (ARC) and bacterial (BAC) amounts reflected AD performance. Compared with the total ARC and BAC amounts in the mono-digestion of WAS, the ARC and BAC amounts increased two and three times, respectively, during co-digestion of FWL and WAS. In characterized archaeal communities, the dominant ratio of hydrogenotrophic methanogens in the mono-digestion of WAS approached nearly a 1:1 ratio of the two acetoclastic and hydrogenotrophic methanogens in the co-digestion of FWL and WAS. The ARC/BAC ratio in the digesters varied in the range of 5.9% to 9.1%, indicating a positive correlation with the methane production of AD.

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