Effect of different compositions on anaerobic co-digestion of cattle manure and agro-industrial by-products
¹L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Department of Management and Engineering in the Field of Environmental Protection, Satpayev str., KZ010008 Astana, Kazakhstan
²Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Department of Sustainable Technologies, Kamýcká 129, CZ16500 Prague, Czech Republic
³Research Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Drnovská 507, CZ16101 Prague, Czech Republic
*Correspondence: ivanova@ftz.czu.cz
Abstract:
The present research is dedicated to the study of anaerobic co-digestion process of different biomass materials. Anaerobic co-digestion of digested sludge, grass silage, haylage and cattle manure was evaluated in mesophilic tank reactors in the lab-scale experiment. Twelve laboratory scale tank reactors (1.5 L) were used during the incubation period of 45 days. First triplet of reactors was fed with pure digested sludge and the other three with different mixtures having the volumetric ratios of 30/35/25/10, 40/30/20/10 and 50/25/15/10 for digested sludge/corn silage/grass haylage/cattle manure. Methane production was analyzed for all lab-scale reactors individually. The resulting specific methane production of above-mentioned batches was 336.34, 238.1 and 233.23 LSTP[CH4] kg-1[TVS], respectively. Other results such as cumulative biogas and methane yield, volumetric biogas and methane yield, volumetric biogas and methane yield per day were also assessed. These results had the highest meaning when complex substrate had no more than 30% of inoculum.
Key words:
batch reactor experiments, cattle manure, co-digestion, crop residues, volumetric ratios