Co-digestion of wastewater sludge: Choosing the optimal blend

Anaerobic co-digestion of municipal wastewater sludge and restaurant grease

Co-digestion has drawn much attention because of its potential to increase biogas production among other benefits. Restaurant grease has high energy content and methane production potential and so is a promising substrate for co-digestion with municipal wastewater sludge. Anaerobic co-digestion of municipal wastewater sludge and restaurant grease was investigated at laboratory-scale under mesop...

Pilot-scale anaerobic co-digestion of municipal wastewater sludge with restaurant grease trap waste.

The maximum feasible loading rate of grease trap waste (GTW) to the municipal wastewater sludge (MWS) was investigated using two 1300 L pilot-scale (1200 L active volume) digesters under mesophilic conditions at a 20 day solids retention time. During the co-digestion, the test reactor received a mixture of GTW and MWS while the control reactor received only MWS. The test digester loading was in...

Anaerobic co-digestion of municipal sludge with FOG enhances the destruction of sludge solids

The objective of this study was to investigate the benefits of co-digestion of a sludge-mix of primary sludge (PS)/thickened waste activated sludge (TWAS) with concentrated fat-oil-grease (FOG) over a wide range of FOG/sludge-mix volumetric feed ratios. The biodegradability (i.e., COD to methane conversion) of PS, TWAS, sludge-mix, and FOG was 43.0, 38.6, 41.8, and 97.7%, respectively, with a p...

Anaerobic co-digestion of coffee waste and sewage sludge.

The feasibility of the anaerobic co-digestion of coffee solid waste and sewage sludge was assessed. Five different solid wastes with different chemical properties were studied in mesophilic batch assays, providing basic data on the methane production, reduction of total and volatile solids and hydrolysis rate constant. Most of the wastes had a methane yield of 0.24-0.28 m3 CH4(STP)/kg VS(initia...

Co-digestion of Sewage Sludge and Microalgae- Biogas