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Performance of an anaerobic fluidized bed bioreactor (AnFBR) for digestion of primary municipal wastewater treatment biosolids and bioethanol thin stillage

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  • Andalib, Mehran
  • Elbeshbishy, Elsayed
  • Mustafa, Nizar
  • Hafez, Hisham
  • Nakhla, George
  • Zhu, Jesse

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The primary objective of this work was to investigate and compare the treatability of very high suspended solids with different biodegradable particulate fractions and COD fractionation, thin stillage (a by-product from the corn ethanol industry) as well as primary sludge from municipal wastewater treatment, using an anaerobic fluidized bed bioreactor (AnFBR) employing US Mesh 30 × 40 zeolite with a diameter of (dm) in the range of 425–610 μm and specific surface area (SSA) of 26.5 m2/g as the carrier media. Each experimental run lasted over a six-month period. Due to the long-term impact of accumulation of inert suspended solids in the AnFBR and potential active biomass washout leading to failure, treatability of high suspended-solid streams can be very challenging. Despite the very high strength of thin stillage and primary sludge with chemical oxygen demand of 130,000 mg TCOD/L and 42,000 mg TCOD/L respectively and suspended solids of 47,000 mg TSS/L and 34,000 mg TSS/L, the AnFBR showed, up to 88% and 82% TCOD and 78% and 82% TSS removal efficiencies from thin stillage and primary sludge respectively at very high organic and solids loading rates (OLR and SLR) of 29 kg COD/m3 d and 9.5 kg COD/m3 d and 10.5 kg TSS/m3 d and 10.3 kg TSS/m3 d respectively at hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 3.5 and 4 days. Maximum methane production yields of up to 0.31LCH4/gCOD and 0.25LCH4/gCOD were achieved for thin stillage and primary sludge respectively corresponding to biogas production rate per reactor volume of 15.8 Lgas/Lreactor d and 1.22LCH4/Lreactord.

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  • Andalib, Mehran & Elbeshbishy, Elsayed & Mustafa, Nizar & Hafez, Hisham & Nakhla, George & Zhu, Jesse, 2014. "Performance of an anaerobic fluidized bed bioreactor (AnFBR) for digestion of primary municipal wastewater treatment biosolids and bioethanol thin stillage," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 276-285.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:71:y:2014:i:c:p:276-285
    DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2014.05.039
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