Olive Mill Industrial Waste as Co-substrate in Anaerobic Digestion with Aim at its Energetic Exploitation

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 12 - Trang 713-723 - 2018
Carlos Benito-Mora1, Antonio J Alonso-Contreras1, Dolores Garvi1, Laura Pozo-Morales2, Maria C Morón3, Julian Lebrato1
1TAR Group RNM159 PAIDI, High Polytechnic School, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
2Department of Chemical Engineering, High Polytechnic School, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
3TAR Group RNM159 PAIDI, Department of Applied Physic I, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Tóm tắt

The aim of this paper is to assess the feasibility of the co-digestion of olive mill industrial waste with urban sewage sludge from wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). These wastes include olive mill solid waste (OMSW) and olive mill effluent (OME). This co-digestion process enables the energetic exploitation of OMSW and/or OME and introduces an environmental solution for their highly pollutant compounds. The behaviour of both co-substrates was studied using biochemical methane potential assays. To determine the optimal proportions of each co-substrate, different quantities of OME and OMSW were added to a constant quantity of substrate (urban sewage sludge) and put to test. A small amount of digested sludge from WWTP was used as an inoculum to accelerate the pace of the reactions. Thus, the optimal proportions between substrate and co-substrate were defined. The samples containing OMSW showed a biodegradability around 23%, slightly above that of the substrate on its own (21.3%). Moreover, biogas production in samples containing OMSW was significantly superior to samples containing substrate only. Nevertheless, the samples containing OME as a co-substrate presented an inferior biodegradability (20.3%) to that of the substrate on its own. Similarly, biogas production in OME co-digestion remained within the usual values of urban sewage sludge biogas production. In all cases, the system remained stable and the energetic efficiency of the process was improved in comparison to the digestion of substrate only. Therefore, co-digestion with urban sewage sludge proves to be a cost-effective method for OMSW and OME environmental management.

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