 Thermophilic anaerobic digestion of raw sugarcane vinasseAntônio Djalma Nunes Ferraz Júnior, Mirian H. Koyama, Moacir M. de Araújo Júnior and Marcelo Zaiat Renewable Energy, 2016, vol. 89, issue C, 245-252 Abstract: The application of thermophilic anaerobic digestion is a logical choice for the treatment of sugarcane vinasse (industrial wastewater from ethanol production) because this process enables the recovery of energy as hydrogen and methane without requiring energy for heat or interfering in its quality as a bio-fertilizer. Thus, this study evaluated the performance of thermophilic methanogenic up-flow sludge blanket reactors (UASB) operating continuously in single-stage (UASB I) and two-stage (UASB II) systems vinasse during the sugarcane harvesting season (180 days). The maximum methane yields were 250.9 NmL-CH4.g−1CODremoved and 316.0 NmL-CH4.g−1CODremoved for UASB I and II, respectively, corresponding to 71.7% and 90.3% of the maximum theoretical methane yield (350 NmL-CH4.g−1CODremoved). Furthermore, the energy production from the two-stage system was 25.7% higher than the single-stage system, indicating the need for an acidogenic phase to improve both the removal of organic matter and energy extraction from sugarcane vinasse. Keywords: Anaerobic digestion; Up-flow sludge blanket reactor (UASB); Single-stage system; Two-stage system; Raw sugarcane vinasse (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:renene:v:89:y:2016:i:c:p:245-252 DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2015.11.064 Access Statistics for this article Renewable Energy is currently edited by Soteris A. Kalogirou and Paul Christodoulides More articles in Renewable Energy from Elsevier |
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