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Enhancement of Biogas Production by Co-digestion of Potato Pulp with Cow Manure in a CSTR System

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Anaerobic digestion (AD) process is a well-established method to generate energy from the organic wastes both from the environmental and economical perspectives. The purpose of present study is to evaluate energy production from potato wastes by incorporating cow manure into the process. Firstly, a laboratory pilot of one-stage biogas production was designed and built according to continuously stirred tank reactor (CSTR) system. The setup was able to automatically control the environmental conditions of the process including temperature, duration, and rate of stirring. AD experiment was exclusively performed on co-digestion of potato peel (PP) and cow manure (CM) in three levels of mixing ratio including 20:80, 50:50, 80:20 (PP:CM), and 0:100 as control treatment based on the volatile solid (VS) weight without adding initial inoculums. After hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 50 days on average 193, 256, 348, and 149 norm liter (LN) (kg VS)−1, methane was produced for different mixing ratios, respectively. Statistical analysis shows that these gas productions are significantly different. The average energy was determined based on the produced methane which was about 2.8 kWh (kg VS)−1, implying a significant energy production potential. The average chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal of treatments was about 61 %, showing that it can be leached significantly with high organic matter by the employed pilot. The energy efficiency of 92 % of the process also showed the optimum control of the process by the pilot.

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  1. Laboratory of Waste Management Organization of Mashhad Municipality, Mashhad, Iran

    Akbar Sanaei-Moghadam & Javad Abedini-Torghabeh

  2. Bio-System Engineering Department, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, 9177948978, Iran

    Akbar Sanaei-Moghadam, Mohammad Hossein Abbaspour-Fard, Hasan Aghel & Mohammad Hossein Aghkhani

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Sanaei-Moghadam, A., Abbaspour-Fard, M.H., Aghel, H. et al. Enhancement of Biogas Production by Co-digestion of Potato Pulp with Cow Manure in a CSTR System. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 173, 1858–1869 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12010-014-0972-5

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