Journal
PROCESS BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 39, Issue 12, Pages 2143-2148Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2003.11.022
Keywords
fruit and vegetable waste; anaerobic digestion; temperature; energy balance
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This study compares the performance of anaerobic digestion of fruit and vegetable waste (FVW) in the thermophilic (55 degreesC) process with those under psychrophilic (20 degreesC) and mesophilic (35 degreesC) conditions in a tubular anaerobic digesters on a laboratory scale. The hydraulic retention time (HRT) ranged from 10 to 20 days, and raw fruit and vegetable waste was supplied in a semi-continuous mode at various concentrations of total solids (TS) (4, 6, 8 and 10% on dry weight). Biogas production from the experimental thermophilic digester was higher on average than from psychrophilic and mesophilic digesters by 144 and 41 %, respectively. The net energy production in the thermophilic digester was 195.7 and 49.07 kJ per day higher than that for the psychrophilic and mesophilic digesters, respectively. The relation between the daily production of biogas and the temperature indicates that for the same produced quantity of biogas, the size of the thermophilic digester can be reduced with regard to that of the psychrophilic and the mesophilic digesters. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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