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Increase in Methane Production Through the Application of Combined Pretreatments on Water Hyacinth Waste

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Water hyacinth (WH) is an invasive plant that generates adverse effects in water bodies, which, when removed, becomes a lignocellulosic residue that would use for methane production. The present investigation aimed to assess the increase in methane production when are applied and combined the pretreatments: grinding, chemical (pH adjust), thermal (temperature control), and concentration control, in anaerobic digestion (AD) through the biochemical methane potential (BMP) test, developed and based on a Taguchi L8 orthogonal arrangement. The results obtained from this study revealed that combined pretreatment has a positive effect on increasing methane production, concerning test control of WH chopped unpretreated, and achieving an increase of 260% to the better conditions (concentration of 30 g CODL−1, pH of 8.5, grinding with a disc mill, and a temperature of 40 °C, for 30 min). The degradation kinetic constant for the best combination of pretreatments as a function of volatile solids (VS) consumption and time was 0.0032 day−1, and the methane production kinetic constant was 0.17 day−1, with a yield of 111 NmL CH4 g VS−1 (equivalent to 0.02856 kg CH4 kg WH−1), and generation potential of 5712 kg of CH4 ha−1 year−1.

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This work was supported by CONACYT (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología) for scholarship No. 610719 provided and the Coordinación de la Investigación Científica (CIC) of the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH) for the resources and facilities provided.

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    Julio César Jacuinde Ruíz, Ma. del Carmen Chávez Parga & José Apolinar Cortés

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Ruíz, J.C.J., del Carmen Chávez Parga, M. & Cortés, J.A. Increase in Methane Production Through the Application of Combined Pretreatments on Water Hyacinth Waste. Bioenerg. Res. 16, 357–368 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12155-022-10448-8

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