Comparison of different anaerobic digestion reactors for biogas production from maize stalk

FU Xinmei; HU Yuan; CAI Yi; HUANG Hulin

doi:10.12030/j.cjee.201609078

2017 Volume 11 Issue 9

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FU Xinmei, HU Yuan, CAI Yi, HUANG Hulin. Comparison of different anaerobic digestion reactors for biogas production from maize stalk[J]. Chinese Journal of Environmental Engineering, 2017, 11(9): 5239-5248. doi: 10.12030/j.cjee.201609078

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FU Xinmei, HU Yuan, CAI Yi, HUANG Hulin. Comparison of different anaerobic digestion reactors for biogas production from maize stalk[J]. Chinese Journal of Environmental Engineering, 2017, 11(9): 5239-5248. doi: 10.12030/j.cjee.201609078

Comparison of different anaerobic digestion reactors for biogas production from maize stalk

1.
Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Recycle, Ministry of Education, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, China
2.
School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Chang'an University, Xi'an 710064, China

Received Date: 08/01/2017
Accepted Date: 07/09/2016
Available Online: 26/08/2017

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Abstract

To investigate the effects of reactor configurations on anaerobic digestion performance of agricultural residues, one-stage continuously stirred tank reactor (CSTR) and two-stage leach bed (L)-upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactors were chosen as the digesters and comparison of anaerobic digestion performance of maize stalk in these two reactor systems was conducted. The results showed that in CSTR, the specific methane yields was 223 mL·g-1 at HRT of 30 days and OLR of 3.0 g·(L·d)-1 (all based on VS of stalk) while it was 169 mL·g-1 at the same HRT in L-UASB. The volatile solid (VS) reduction of the initial maize stalk was 53.7% in the former reactor and 43.5% in the latter reactor. Therefore, the results from the present study show that biogas production from agricultural residues was affected significantly by the reactor configurations.
- anaerobic digestion,
- biogas,
- continuously stirred tank reactor (CSTR),
- leach bed-upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (L-UASB),
- maize stalk

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Comparison of different anaerobic digestion reactors for biogas production from maize stalk

Received Date: 08/01/2017

Accepted Date: 07/09/2016

Available Online: 26/08/2017

Fund Project:

Key words:

anaerobic digestion /
biogas /
continuously stirred tank reactor (CSTR) /
leach bed-upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (L-UASB) /
maize stalk

Abstract: To investigate the effects of reactor configurations on anaerobic digestion performance of agricultural residues, one-stage continuously stirred tank reactor (CSTR) and two-stage leach bed (L)-upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactors were chosen as the digesters and comparison of anaerobic digestion performance of maize stalk in these two reactor systems was conducted. The results showed that in CSTR, the specific methane yields was 223 mL·g-1 at HRT of 30 days and OLR of 3.0 g·(L·d)-1 (all based on VS of stalk) while it was 169 mL·g-1 at the same HRT in L-UASB. The volatile solid (VS) reduction of the initial maize stalk was 53.7% in the former reactor and 43.5% in the latter reactor. Therefore, the results from the present study show that biogas production from agricultural residues was affected significantly by the reactor configurations.

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