This study presents the effect of mechanical, chemical, thermal, and hybrid pretreatment on anaerobic digestion of fruit-juice industrial waste (FW) co-digested with municipal sewage sludge (MSS). The pretreatment of the… Click to show full abstract
This study presents the effect of mechanical, chemical, thermal, and hybrid pretreatment on anaerobic digestion of fruit-juice industrial waste (FW) co-digested with municipal sewage sludge (MSS). The pretreatment of the substrates with ultrasonication, microwave, weak alkali-acid caused an increase in cumulative biogas production of approximately 20.9, 14.9, 8.1, and 5.2%, respectively. Beside this, thermal and strong acid-alkali pretreatment reduced biogas production. The highest cumulative biogas and methane yield was increased with hybrid pretreatment which contains ultrasonication (US) and alkali (AL) pretreatment by 36% and 49%, respectively. Also, compared to untreated mixture, the soluble COD, carbohydrate, and protein removal efficiencies were increased from 42.6% to 65.6%, 65.1% to 86.6%, and 17.3% to 62.4%, respectively for US-AL pretreatment. The kinetic parameters of cumulative biogas production for the selected reactors were further estimated with Monod, Cone, and Transference Function models.
               
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