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WASTE MANAGEMENT
Volume 147, Issue -, Pages 73-82Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2022.05.013
Keywords
Anaerobic digestion; Digested sewage sludge; Pyrolysis liquid; Thermal prehydrolysis
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- Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation (Anna Hamalainen)
- Industrial Research Fund at Tampere University of Technology (Anna Hamalainen)
- Gasum Ltd.
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This study piloted the use of pyrolysis process to produce biochar from digestate of municipal sewage sludge in a central biogas plant. The study also investigated the effects of adding pyrolysis liquid to sewage sludge and thermal hydrolysis pretreated sewage sludge on methane production in a full-scale centralized biogas plant. The results showed that pyrolysis liquid can be treated in anaerobic digestion (AD) and has the potential to increase methane production and ammonium recovery.
The use of pyrolysis process to valorize digestate from anaerobic digestion (AD) of municipal sewage sludge for biochar production was piloted in a central biogas plant. The pyrolysis also generates pyrolysis liquid with high organics and nutrient contents that currently has no value and requires treatment, which could potentially be done in AD. As the pyrolysis liquid may contain inhibitory compounds, we investigated the effects of adding the pyrolysis liquid on AD of sewage sludge and thermal hydrolysis pretreated sewage sludge (THSS) simulating the full-scale centralized biogas plant conditions. In batch assays, the pyrolysis liquid as such did not produce any methane, and the 1% and 5% (v/w) shares suppressed the methane production from THSS by 14-19%, while a smaller decrease in methane production was observed with sewage sludge. However, in the semi-continuous reactor experiments, pyrolysis liquid at a 1% (v/w) share was added in sewage sludge or THSS feed without affecting the methane yields or digestate characteristics. The laboratory results indicated that pyrolysis liquid can be treated in AD, while extrapolating the results to the centralized biogas plant indicated minor increase in the overall methane production and an increased potential for ammonium recovery.
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