Journal
CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 97, Issue -, Pages 115-119Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.10.045
Keywords
Municipal solid waste; Anaerobic digestion; Stable carbon isotopic tracing; Phenol biodegradation pathway; Benzoic acid
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- R2DS research programme of the Region Ile de France
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Anaerobic digestion makes it possible to valorize municipal solid waste (MSW) into biogas and digestate which are, respectively, a renewable energy source and an organic amendment for soil. Phenols are persistent pollutants present in MSW that can inhibit the anaerobic digestion process and have a toxic effect on microbiota if they are applied to soil together with digestate. It is then important to define the operational conditions of anaerobic digestion which allow the complete degradation of phenol. In this context, the fate of phenol during the anaerobic digestion of MSW at 55 degrees C was followed using an isotopic tracing approach (C-13(6)-phenol) in experimental microcosms with inoculum from an industrial thermophilic anaerobic digester. With this approach, it was possible to demonstrate the complete phenol biodegradation into methane and carbon dioxide via benzoate. Benzoate is known to be a phenol metabolite under mesophilic Conditions, but in this study it was found for the first time to be a phenol degradation product at thermophilic temperature. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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