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BIOENGINEERED
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 39-52Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/21655979.2019.1703544
Keywords
Inoculum to substrate ratio; pH control; the inhibitor for methanogens; O-2; inoculum acclimatization; VFA; anaerobic digestion
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- Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapradet)
- Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP) [PRJ-293/LPDP/2015]
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Volatile fatty acids (VFAs) are intermediate products in anaerobic digestion. The effect of substrate loading or inoculum to substrate ratio (ISR), the addition of methanogen inhibitor, O-2 presence, control the reactor's pH, and inoculum adaptation on the VFAs production from food waste through acidogenesis process was investigated in this study. Addition of 2-bromoethane sulfonic (BES) as methanogen inhibitor suppressed VFA consumption by methanogens at ISR 1:1. At higher substrate loading (ISR 1:3), methane production can be suppressed even without the addition of BES. However, at high substrate loading, controlling the pH during acidogenesis is important to achieve high VFAs yield. Acclimatization of inoculum is also one of the strategies to achieve high VFA yield. The highest VFAs yield obtained in this work was 0.8 g VFA/g VS (added) at ISR 1:3, controlled pH at 6, with the presence of initial O-2 (headspace unflushed).
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