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Assessment of biochemical methane potential of dairy wastewater with different co-substrates and evaluation of different kinetic models

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Dairy industry wastewater can be considered as an important source of pollution due to its high amounts and pollutant concentrations. Anaerobic treatment is seen as a suitable alternative over aerobic treatment which requires huge aeration systems. Biochemical methane potential (BMP) testing is a widely applied technique for estimating the performance of anaerobic digesters and still has no clear alternative. In the study, the biochemical methane potential change was investigated by mixing dairy wastewater with different co-substrates (cattle manure, chicken manure and slaughterhouse wastewater) at different rates. The highest biogas potential per gram of chemical oxygen demand added (CODadded) was determined as 574 mLbiogas in a mixture of 74% dairy wastewater + 2% chicken manure + 24% slaughterhouse wastewater inoculated with granular sludge. The highest methane potential was determined as 340 mLCH4 in the same co-substrate mixture inoculated with anaerobic sludge. In recent years, mathematical modeling offers an alternative to BMP tests and many different models are used for this purpose. In the study, six different mathematical models were used to simulate the BMP results, and the highest correlation coefficient in almost all mixtures ranged from 0.900 to 0.997 with the Modified Gompertz equation and Fitzhugh models.

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Neslihan Manav-Demir and Elif Unal performed initial literature search; Elif Unal performed experimental procedures; Neslihan Manav-Demir performed numerical analyses; Neslihan Manav-Demir and Elif Unal wrote the manuscript. Neslihan Manav-Demir is the instructor and Elif Unal is the graduate student. Both authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Unal, E., Manav-Demir, N. Assessment of biochemical methane potential of dairy wastewater with different co-substrates and evaluation of different kinetic models. Environ Monit Assess 196, 21 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-023-12208-3

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