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Influence of liquid- and solid-state coupling anaerobic digestion process on methane production of cow manure and rice straw

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Based on the different characteristics of cow manure and rice straw, liquid- and solid-state coupling anaerobic digestion (L-SS-AD) is designed in this study. In detail, cow dung was fermented in liquid anaerobic digestion (L-AD) process, while rice straw was treated in SS-AD process with L-AD digestate as inoculums to get the benefit of both the process. Optimization experiments were systematically performed in both two processes. The results showed that organic loading rate (OLR) of 10.0 kg VS/(m3 d) was possible during the L-AD process, and the average specific methane production (SMP) was 225.2 mL CH4/g VS at a steady state. In addition, in batch test of SS-AD, the lower substrate-to-inoculum ratios (S0/I0) favored the reaction rate and the optimal S0/I0 of 0.9 was selected for further leach-bed experiment. Furthermore, a leach-bed reactor for SS-AD process was operated stably at the average OLRS of 2.17 kg VS/m3 d with the feed interval of 2 weeks. The maximum SMP was 216.13 mL CH4/g VS. Finally, the total energy yield values of 15.45 kJ/g VS can be obtained from the integrated process. L-SS-AD process can improve the efficiency of methane production and provide data preference for full-scale industrial biogas project.

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Acknowledgements

The research was funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project (no. 2016M601405), “Young Talents” Project of Northeast Agricultural University (no. 16QC16), Heilongjiang Province Science Foundation for Returnees (no. LC2016015), and Heilongjiang Provincial Youth Science Foundation (no. QC2015049), and the authors are grateful for “Heilongjiang Key Laboratory of Technology and Equipment for the Utilization of Agricultural Renewable Resources”.

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    Lina Luo, Weijia Gong, Liyuan Qin, Yiwen Ma & Wencong Ju

  2. Department of Ecology, School of Resource and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, No. 600 Changjiang Street, Xiangfang District, Harbin, 150030, People’s Republic of China

    Hongyan Wang

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Luo, L., Gong, W., Qin, L. et al. Influence of liquid- and solid-state coupling anaerobic digestion process on methane production of cow manure and rice straw. J Mater Cycles Waste Manag 20, 1804–1812 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-018-0750-5

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