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Performance of Anaerobic Co-digestion of Pig Slurry with Pineapple (Ananas comosus) Bio-waste Residues

Waste and Biomass Valorization volume 12, pages 303–311 (2021)Cite this article

Abstract

Agro-food industries produce large amounts of bio-waste, challenging innovative valorisation strategies in the framework of circular economy principles. Anaerobic digestion technology is an interesting route to stabilise organic matter and produce biogas as a renewable energy source. This paper aimed to study the optimal performance conditions for anaerobic co-digestion (AcoD) of pig slurry with pineapple (Ananas comosus) peel bio-waste. The anaerobic digestion (AD) trials were performed at lab scale, in a continuous stirred reactor, for 16 days’ hydraulic retention time in mesophilic conditions (37 ± 1 °C). Three hydraulic retention time were performed, one for the reference scenario (T0) and two for AcoD trials (T1, T2). Feeding mixtures (20:80; v:v) of pineapple peel liquor and pig slurry, with an OLR of 1.46 ± 0.04 g TVS L−1reactor day−1 were used during AD/AcoD trials, presenting high values for soluble chemical oxygen demand and C/N ratio. This operational conditions highlight bioenergy recovery up to 0.58 L CH4 g TVSadded−1, in comparison with that obtained with pig slurry substrate (0.31 L CH4 g VSadded−1). The AD performance showed a total volatile solids and chemical oxygen demand removal efficiency of 23% to 47% and 26% to 48%, comparing T0 with the average of T1 and T2, respectively. The digester stability, evaluated by specific energetic loading rate, was below the limit (0.4 day−1) throughout the trials. Pig slurry co-digestion with pineapple peel liquor seems to be a promising approach for potential bioenergy recovery.

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Abbreviations

AcoD:

Anaerobic co-digestion

AD:

Anaerobic digestion

C/N:

Carbon/nitrogen ratio

GPR:

Gas production rate

HRT:

Hydraulic retention time

IA:

Intermediate alkalinity

OLR:

Organic loading rate

PA:

Partial alkalinity

PPL:

Pineapple peel liquor

PS:

Pig slurry

SCOD:

Soluble chemical oxygen demand

SELR:

Specific energetic loading rate

SGP:

Specific gas production

SMP:

Specific methane production

TA:

Total alkalinity

TCOD:

Total chemical oxygen demand

TKN:

Total Kjeldahl nitrogen

TOC:

Total organic carbon

TS:

Total solids

TVS:

Total volatile solids

TSVS:

Total suspended volatile solids

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Authors acknowledge the national funding FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal), for the financial support to the following research units: the Forest Research Center (CEF), under UID/AGR/00239/2019 project, and Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food (LEAF), under UID/AGR/04129/2019 project.

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Azevedo, A., Gominho, J. & Duarte, E. Performance of Anaerobic Co-digestion of Pig Slurry with Pineapple (Ananas comosus) Bio-waste Residues. Waste Biomass Valor 12, 303–311 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-020-00959-w

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