期刊
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
卷 355, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.131802
关键词
Lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment; Electric energy; Heat; Avoided GHG Emissions; Circular economy
资金
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Brazilian Science and Research Foundation (CNPq) [302451/2021-8]
- Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES, Brazil) [001]
- Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP, Brazil) [2018/05999-0, 2018/14938-4, 2019/26925-7, 2020/10323-5]
- U.S. National Science Foundation [1554283]
Ultrasonication of brewers' spent grains (BSG) as a pretreatment prior to anaerobic digestion (AD) increased methane production and energy recovery. The US + AD system could generate electrical and thermal energy to meet the energy needs of a brewery while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Brewers' spent grains (BSG) account for 85% of the dry raw material used in the brewing process. Pretreatment of BSG may make its organic content more amenable for anaerobic digestion (AD) but at the expense of added energy. This work evaluated ultrasonication (US) of BSG as a pretreatment prior to AD. US + AD produced biogas containing 56% methane, which is 27% greater than the control reactor that did not receive US pretreatment. The US pretreatment increased the methane yield (107.28 L CH4 kg(-1) TVS) in 4-fold higher when compared with the AD reactor without pretreatment (26.72 L CH4 kg(-1) TVS). AD and US + AD energy recovery routes were assessed for: (i) electric, and thermal energy recovery, and (ii) production of biomethane for vehicular use. The US + AD system could generate 0.23 MWh t(-1) BSG of electrical energy and 1.2 x 10(3) MJ t(-1) BSG of thermal energy. AD without pretreatment generates 0.15 MWh t(-1) BSG of electrical energy and 0.79 x 10(3) MJ t(-1) BSG of thermal energy. The energy required for US pretreatment was estimated as 0.29 MWh t(-1), while the theoretical electric energy generation was 0.23 MWh t(-1). Accordingly, US pretreatment generates sufficient electrical energy to offset most of the energy it consumes, with net co-production of thermal energy for on-site use with additional heat surplus. From an environmental perspective, the AD process potentially avoids greenhouse gases emissions of 0.056 tCO(2eq) t(-1) BSG, and the US + AD process could avoid 0.083 tCO(2eq) t(-1) BSG if the thermal energy from biogas is used to offset the use of natural gas for heating. Finally, AD produces green energy that contributes to brewery decarbonization, and US pretreatment combined with AD has promise for meeting all the thermal energy needs of a low-carbon brewery.
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