A 5,000-L anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) fed with actual municipal wastewater was employed to study the impact of temperature drops on methanogenic performance and membrane fouling. With temperature dropped from 25 °C to 15 °C, the methane yield decreased from 0.244 to 0.205 NL-CH/g-COD and the dissolved methane increased from 29% to 43%, resulted in the methanogenic performance reduced by 25%. The membrane rejection offset the deteriorated anaerobic digestion at low temperatures and ensured the stable COD removal efficiency of 84.5%-90.0%. The synergistic effects of the increased microbial products and viscosity and the residual inorganic foulants aggravated the membrane fouling at lower temperatures. As the organic fouling was easily removed by NaClO, the inorganics related to the elements of S, Ca and Fe were the stubborn membrane foulants and required the enhanced acid membrane cleaning. These findings obtained under the quasi-practical condition are expected to promote the practical applications of mainstream AnMBR.
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Bioresour Technol
January 2025
Department of Frontier Science for Advanced Environment, Graduate School of Environmental Sciences, Tohoku University, 6-6-06 Aoba, Aramaki-Aza, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-06 Aoba, Aramaki-Aza, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan. Electronic address:
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Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, Centro de Salud Los Ángeles, Madrid; Grupo de trabajo de Patología digestiva y hepática de la semFYC; Grupo de trabajo de Digestivo de la SoMaMFyC, España.
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Despite advances in anaerobic digestion (AD), full-scale implementation faces significant challenges, particularly during the start-up phase, where inoculum selection is crucial. This study examines the impact of inoculum choice on the operational and economic performance of thermophilic digesters during the start-up phase. Methanogenic reactors R3 and R4 were inoculated with digested sludge (DiS) and diluted sewage sludge (DSS), respectively, and fed with hydrolyzed source-sorted organic fraction of municipal solid waste (SS-OFMSW) and thickened sewage sludge, which were processed in R1 and R2, serving as acidogenic reactors.
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Newe Ya'ar Research Center, Agricultural Research Organization, P.O. Box 1021, Ramat Yishay 30095, Israel. Electronic address:
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