Contribution of vitamin B12 to biogas upgrading and nutrient removal by different microalgae-based technology

Bing Xu1,2, Jia Liu3, Chunzhi Zhao4, Shiqing Sun5, Yongjun Zhao6, Juan Liu6, Jie Xu6, Daoji Wu1
1School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan, People’s Republic of China
2Co-innovation center of Green Building, Jinan, People’s Republic of China
3Jinan water Group Co, Ltd, Jinan, People’s Republic of China
4School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
5Department of Chemistry and Textile Engineering, Jiaxing nanhu University, Jiaxing, People’s Republic of China
6College of Biological, Chemical Science and Engineering, Jiaxing University, Jiaxing, People’s Republic of China

Tóm tắt

The algae-based technology has a positive effect on the treatment of biogas slurry and the purification of biogas, while vitamin B12 (VB12) is one of the important regulatory substances in the algae-based cultivation system. In this study, different concentrations of VB12 were used in three microalgal treatment technologies to assess their effect on simultaneous removal of nutrients from biogas slurry and removal of CO2 from raw biogas. Results showed that Chlorella vulgaris exhibited higher growth rate, mean daily productivity, chlorophyll a content, carbonic anhydrase activity and better photosynthetic properties when co-cultivated with Ganoderma lucidum, rather than when co-cultivated with activated sludge or under mono-cultivation. Maximum mean chemical oxygen demand, total nitrogen, total phosphorus and CO2 removal efficiencies were found to be 84.29 ± 8.28%, 83.27 ± 8.14%, 85.27 ± 8.46% and 65.71 ± 6.35%, respectively when microalgae were co-cultivated with Ganoderma lucidum under 100 ng L−1 of VB12. This study shows the potential of microalgae and fungi co-cultivation supplemented with VB12 for the simultaneous upgradation of biogas production as well as for the purification of biogas slurry.

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