Integration of membrane filtration in two-stage anaerobic digestion system: Specific methane yield potentials of hydrolysate and permeate.

Two-stage biogas systems consisting of a CSTR-acidification reactor (AR) and an anaerobic filter (AF) were frequently described for microbial conversion of food and agricultural wastes to biogas. The aim of this study is to investigate the integration of a membrane filtration step in two-stage systems to remove inert particles from hydrolysate produced in AR in order to increase the efficiency of the subsequent AF. Hydrolysates from vegetable waste (VW) and grass/maize silage (G/M) were treated in cross-flow ceramic membrane filtration system (pore size 0.

Development of a production chain from vegetable biowaste to platform chemicals.

Background: A future bioeconomy relies on the development of technologies to convert waste into valuable compounds. We present here an attempt to design a biotechnological cascade for the conversion of vegetable waste into acetoin and electrical energy.

Results: A vegetable waste dark fermentation effluent containing mainly acetate, butyrate and propionate was oxidized in a bioelectrochemical system.

Effects of target pH-value on organic acids and methane production in two-stage anaerobic digestion of vegetable waste.

Vegetable waste is one of the major organic residues available for sustainable bioenergy production. The aim of this work is to study the influence of pH-value on process stability, hydrolysis, degradation degree and methane production in two-stage anaerobic system. A mixture of vegetable wastes with carrot mousse, carrots, celery, cabbage and potatoes was treated in two-stage system at target pH-values 5.