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Codigestion of olive oil mill wastewaters with manure, household waste or sewage sludge

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Combined anaerobic digestion of oil mill effluent(OME) together with manure, household waste (HHW) orsewage sludge was investigated. In batch experimentsit was shown that OME could be degraded into biogaswhen codigested with manure. In codigestion with HHWor sewage sludge, OME dilution with water (1:5) wasrequired in order to degrade it. Using continuouslystirred lab-scale reactors it was shown thatcodigestion of OME with manure (50:50 and 75:25 OMEto manure ratios) was successful with a theoreticalOME utilization of 75% and with approx. 87%reduction of the lipids content in OME. An OMEutilization of approx. 55%, and lipid reduction of73% was reached in codigestion with HHW (50:50 and75:25 OME to HHW ratios). The results showed thatthe high buffering capacity contained in manure,together with the content of several essentialnutrients, make it possible to degrade OME withoutprevious dilution, without addition of externalalkalinity and without addition of external nitrogensource.

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Angelidaki, I., Ahring, B. Codigestion of olive oil mill wastewaters with manure, household waste or sewage sludge. Biodegradation 8, 221–226 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008284527096

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