Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 99, Issue 14, Pages 6075-6080Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2007.12.048
Keywords
anaerobic digestion; organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW); mesophilic; biogas; methane
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The influence of total solid contents during anaerobic mesophilic treatment of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (MSW) has been studied in this work. The work was performed in batch reactors of 1.7 L capacity, during a period of 85-95 days. Two different organic substrate concentrations were studied: 931.1 mgDOC/L (20% TS) and 1423.4 mgDOC/L (30% TS). Experimental results showed that the reactor with 20% total solids content had significantly higher performance. Thus, the startup phase elided at 14 days and the total DOC removal was 67.53%. The startup in reactor R30 ended at 28 days obtaining 49.18% DOC removal. Also, the initial substrate concentration contributed substantially to the amount of methane in the biogas. Hence, the total methane production in the methanogenic phase was 7.01 L and 5.53 L at the end of the experiments for R20 and R30, respectively. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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