Dairy Manure Digestate Age Increases Ultrasound Disintegration Efficiency at Low Specific Energies

Matthijs H. Somers, Samet Azman, Ruud Vanhecke and Lise Appels
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Matthijs H. Somers: Department of Chemical Engineering, Process and Environmental Technology Lab, KU Leuven, Jan Pieter De Nayerlaan 5, B-2860 Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium
Samet Azman: Department of Chemical Engineering, Process and Environmental Technology Lab, KU Leuven, Jan Pieter De Nayerlaan 5, B-2860 Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium
Ruud Vanhecke: Department of Chemical Engineering, Process and Environmental Technology Lab, KU Leuven, Jan Pieter De Nayerlaan 5, B-2860 Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium
Lise Appels: Department of Chemical Engineering, Process and Environmental Technology Lab, KU Leuven, Jan Pieter De Nayerlaan 5, B-2860 Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 6, 1-15

Abstract: Substantial insight into the effect of ultrasound disintegration on the changes in biochemical parameters of manure digestate and digestate age is needed to understand the potential of digestate treatment. To address this knowledge gap, in this study, the effect of digestate age on the efficiency of ultrasound (US) disintegration was investigated. In this scope, dairy manure digestate samples were incubated in an oven at 37 °C for a predetermined amount of time to obtain simulated digestate ages of 15, 22, 29, 36 and 43 days. The results showed that US disintegration efficiency significantly affected the initial biochemical characteristics of digestate and that the digestate age had a significant effect on the US disintegration efficiency. This effect diminished when the applied specific energy (SE) was higher than 3000 kJ/kg total solids (TS). A numerical partial least squares (PLS) model was constructed to investigate the relative influences of the initial biochemical parameters on the soluble chemical oxygen demand (sCOD) and soluble carbohydrates (sCARB) solubilization. The results of the high-quality (R 2 = 0.8) model indicated that the most influential parameters for the efficiency of US disintegration were the SE, the initial sCARB 0 , the TS, the initial sCOD 0 and the volatile solids (VS).

Keywords: digestate; anaerobic digestion; pretreatment; digestate disintegration; manure: PLS modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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