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Thermo-alkaline pretreatment of excess sludge: Effects of temperature on volatile fatty acids accumulation and microbial community

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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 342, Issue -, Pages -

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ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118244

Keywords

Thermal -alkaline pretreatment; Sludge anaerobic fermentation; Volatile fatty acids (VFAs); Microbial succession; Microbial interspecific interaction

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The role of thermal-alkaline pretreatment temperatures (TAPT) in sludge fermentation and microbial characteristics was investigated. Increasing TAPT promoted the dissolution of soluble chemical oxygen demand (SCOD) and VFAs, but had minimal effect on NH4+-N and PO43--P release. The optimal condition was found to be 120°C, with the maximum release of SCOD at 8788.74 mg/L (2.63 times of the control group) and the maximum dissolution of VFAs at 4596 mg/L (about 1.28 times of the control group).
In order to explore the role of thermal-alkaline pretreatment temperatures (TAPT) in sludge fermentation and the microbial characteristics, five groups (100, 120, 140, 160 & DEG;C and control group) were set up and the results showed that the increasing TAPT promoted the dissolution of soluble chemical oxygen demand (SCOD) and VFAs, but had slight influence on the release of NH4+-N and PO43--P. What's more, when it was 120 & DEG;C, the SCOD dissolution was comparable to that at 160 & DEG;C. Overall, 120 & DEG;C was the optimal condition, corresponding to the fact that the maximum release of SCOD was 8788.74 mg/L (2.63 times of the control group), the maximum dissolution of VFAs was 4596 mg/L (about 1.28 times of the control group). The trend of C/N was not significant. High-throughput sequencing showed that Firmicutes and Actinobacteriota were enriched with the temperature increasing, while Proteobacteria and Chloroflexi did not change significantly. Firmicutes was in a stable dominant position. Temperature conditions brought about significant changes in microbial interspecific interaction. Car-bohydrate and amino acids had the highest metabolic abundance, especially at 120 & DEG;C group. The change rule of amino acid metabolism was similar to that of lipid metabolism, and the abundance of energy metabolism gradually increased with temperature. The protein metabolism was greatly affected by temperature. This study revealed the effect of microbial mechanism of TAPT on the sludge acid production efficiency.

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