Journal
WATER RESEARCH
Volume 190, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2020.116704
Keywords
Cationic polyacrylamide; Sewage sludge; Hydrothermal treatment; Anaerobic digestion; Decomposition mechanism
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21906027, 31970117, 21876030, 51750110498]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFC0212900, 2017YFC0212200]
- Royal Society International Exchanges [IE160441]
- Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [19DZ1204704, 18230710700]
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Cationic polyacrylamide (cPAM) enhances methane yield and biodegradability in the hydrothermal treatment - anaerobic digestion process. HTT reduces cPAM's molecular weight and leads to the production of easily degradable byproducts.
Cationic polyacrylamide (cPAM) is a widely used flocculant to dewater sewage sludge (SS) for high-solids anaerobic digestion (AD), and its degradation is crucial since it would release toxic acrylamide (AM) once entering environment. Hydrothermal treatment (HTT) is an efficient method to enhance the AD efficiency of SS. However, the effects of cPAM on AD of SS and the degradation of cPAM during HTT-AD process have not be studied. The study showed cPAM at 20 mg/g TS increased methane yield of SS from 127.0 to 138.9 ml CH4/g TS in HTT-AD process, and the biodegradability of cPAM was 76.3%, which was much higher than that (7.4%) without HTT. In HTT-AD process, the enrichment of certain microbes (e.g. Gelria sp.) was observed, which might be related with cPAM degradation. HTT decreased the molecular weight (MW) of cPAM, and resulted in the production of 2-hydroxy-ethyl-trimethylammonium, ammonia, trimethylamine, and ethanol. Methane potential tests of the main HTT products also showed they were easily to be degraded. Overall, HTT-AD integrated process was an efficient method to reduce environmental risk of cPAM as well as increase energy output (biogas), and the study also provided insights into the degradation mechanism of cPAM during HTT. (c) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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