期刊
WATER RESEARCH
卷 46, 期 4, 页码 1015-1026出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.11.073
关键词
Waste activated sludge; Microbial electrolysis cell (MEG); Hydrogen; Electrohydrogenesis; Alkaline pretreatment
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30900046, 51178140, 51121062]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET-10-0066]
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment (Harbin Institute of Technology) [2010TS09]
Fermentative hydrogen production from waste activated sludge (WAS) has low H-2 yield because WAS contains limited amounts of carbohydrate suitable for use by hydrogen-producing bacteria. Here, augmentation of hydrogen production from WAS by microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) was implemented. H-2 yields of 3.89 +/- 0.39 mg-H-2/g-DS (5.67 +/- 0.61 mg-H-2/g-VSS) from raw WAS and 6.78 +/- 0.94 mg-H-2/g-DS (15.08 +/- 1.41 mg-H-2/g-VSS) from alkaline-pretreated WAS were obtained in the two-chamber MECs (TMECs). This was several times higher than yields obtained previously by fermentation. Single-chamber MECs (SMECs) with low internal resistance showed a H-2 production rate that 13 times that of TMECs with similar H-2 yield when alkaline-pretreated WAS was used. However, methanogenesis was detected after several batch cycles. A yield balance calculation revealed that carbohydrates were not the only substrates for electrohydrogenesis. Protein and its acidification products, such as volatile fatty acids are also responsible for a portion of H-2 generation in MEG. Characterization of WAS in TMECs by three-dimensional excitation-emission matrix (EEM) fluorescence spectroscopy with parallel factor analysis indicated that electrohydrogenesis reacted on the extracellular polymeric substances and intracellular substances of WAS. Cascade utilization of organic matter in MEcs increased hydrogen production from WAS. MECs showed high hydrogen yield from WAS, fewer H-2 sinks, and insensitivity to temperature. Optimizing MEG configurations and operation conditions and improving the pretreatment processes of WAS are necessary before practical application can take place on a large scale. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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