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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 473, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2023.145426
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Ultrafiltration; Membrane fouling; Permeate flux; Digestate pre-treatment; Coagulation; Flocculation
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This study investigates the ultrafiltration performance of sugar beet pulp digestate with different pre-treatment strategies. High ultrafiltration performance was obtained using centrifugation and polyacrylamide flocculation as digestate pre-treatment. The results indicate the possibility of filtering the liquid fraction obtained by centrifugation, coagulation or flocculation of the digestate, and using natural auxiliary agents during its pre-treatment.
With the growing interest in anaerobic digestion as a processing method of agro-food waste, proper disposal of digestate has become a prominent problem. In the study, ultrafiltration of the sugar beet pulp digestate was conducted using hollow-fiber membranes with a cut-off of 150 kDa operating in an outside-in system. The effect of different pre-treatment strategies of digestate i.e. centrifugation alone or in combination with coagulation with polyaluminium chloride, biocoagulation with chitosan and flocculation with polyacrylamide on mitigation of membrane fouling and permeate quality was investigated. High ultrafiltration performance was obtained using centrifugation followed by flocculation with 416 mg/dm3 of polyacrylamide as digestate pre-treatment. Removal efficiencies of chemical oxygen demand (COD), total solids, phosphorus and nitrogen were 89.80, 90.08, 88.37 and 64.12%, respectively. Permeate flux and total membrane resistance averaged 22.33 dm3/m2/h and 5.32 & BULL; 1011 m-1. Hydraulic parameters and removal rates determined during ultrafiltration preceded by centrifugation and biocoagulation with 100 mg/dm3 of chitosan did not differ significantly from the values mentioned above for the pre-treatment consisting of centrifugation and flocculation with polyacrylamide. The results indicate the possibility of filtering the liquid fraction obtained by centrifugation, coagulation or flocculation of the digestate, and using natural auxiliary agents during its pre-treatment.
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