Utilizations of Food Waste as an Anaerobic Digester Feedstock

Benefits of Food Waste as a Potential Substrate in a Dry Anaerobic Digester

A mesophilic anaerobic digester for treating food waste: process stability and microbial community analysis using pyrosequencing.

BACKGROUND Anaerobic digesters become unstable when operated at a high organi c loading rate (OLR). Investigating the microbial community response to OLR disturbance is helpful for achieving efficient and stable process operation. However, previous studies have only focused on community succession during different process stages. How does community succession influence process stability? Is thi...

Waste Cooking Oil as an Alternate Feedstock for Biodiesel Production

As crude oil price reach a new high, the need for developing alternate fuels has become acute. Alternate fuels should be economically attractive in order to compete with currently used fossil fuels. In this work, biodiesel (ethyl ester) was prepared from waste cooking oil collected from a local restaurant in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Ethyl alcohol with sodium hydroxide as a catalyst was use...

Anaerobic Digester Feasibility Study

Food Waste Disposal Using Anaerobic Digestion