%0 Journal Article 
%A Ripoll, Vanessa
%A Agabo García, Cristina
%A Pérez García, Montserrat
%A Solera del Río, María del Rosario
%T Improvement of biomethane potential of sewage sludge anaerobic co-digestion by addition of “sherry-wine” distillery wastewater
%D 2020
%@ 0959-6526
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/22440
%X Co-digestion of sewage sludge (SS) with other unusually treated residues has been reported as an efficient method to improve biomethane production. In this work, Sherry-wine distillery wastewater (SWDW) has been proposed as co-substrate in order to increase biomethane production and as a breakthrough solution in the management of both types of waste. In order to achieve this goal, different
SS:SW-DW mixtures were employed as substrates in Biomethane Potential (BMP) tests. The biodegradability and biomethane potential of each mixture was determined selecting the optimal co-substrate
ratio. Results showed that the addition of SW-DW as a co-substrate improves the anaerobic digestion of
SS in a proportionally way in terms of CODs and biomethane production The optimal co-substrates ratio
was 50:50 of SS:SW-DW obtaining %VSremoval ¼ 54.5%; YCH4 ¼ 225.1 L CH4/kgsv or 154 L CH4/kgCODt and
microbial population of 5.5 times higher than sole SS. In this case, %VSremoval ¼ 48.1%; YCH4 ¼ 183 L CH4/
kgsv or 135 L CH4/kgCODt. The modified Gompertz equation was used for the kinetic modelling of biogas
production with successful fitting results (r2 ¼ 0.99). In this sense, at optimal conditions, the maximum
productivity reached at an infinite digestion time was (YMAX
CH4 ) ¼ 229 ± 5.0 NL/kgSV; the specific constant
was K ¼ 25.0 ± 2.3 NL/kgSV$d and the lag phase time constant was (l) ¼ 2.49 ± 0.19
%K Biochemical methane potential
%K Anaerobic digestion and co-digestion
%K Sewage sludge
%K Kinetic parameters
%K Biogas production
%~ Universidad de Cádiz