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Enhanced biogas production from chicken manure via enzymatic pretreatment

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Livestock production residues are commonly used as substrates in agricultural biogas plants for energy recovery. Cattle and poultry manure can be converted to biogas in farm-scale or centralized biogas plants to produce heat and power. This study investigated batch anaerobic digestion of chicken manure coupled with a biological pre-treatment step. The primary objective of this laboratory-scale work was to improve the biological degradability of the mono substrate to obtain higher biogas and methane yields through using an enzymatic pre-treatment. The experimental results showed that the enzymatic pre-treatment for the chicken manure significantly increased the biogas production by about 35% in comparison to the control without enzymatic pre-treatment. Therefore, it can be concluded that the enzymatic pre-treatment of chicken manure could provide improved biogas and methane yields when the chicken manure is used as mono substrate for anaerobic digestion in agricultural biogas plants.

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The authors are grateful to Seyedmehdi Emadian and Murat Kuzulcan for their support during the experiments. The authors wish to thank Kutlusan A.Ş. (Inc.) for the support.

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  2. Institute of Environmental Sciences, Bogazici University, Bebek, 34342, Istanbul, Turkey

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Kucuker, M.A., Demirel, B. & Onay, T.T. Enhanced biogas production from chicken manure via enzymatic pretreatment. J Mater Cycles Waste Manag 22, 1521–1528 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-020-01039-w

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