Santhana, Krishnan and Singh, Lakhveer and Mimi Sakinah, A. M. and Thakur, Sveta and Zularisam, A. W. and Johan, Sohaili (2016) Effect of Organic Loading Rate on Hydrogen (H2) and Methane (CH4) Production in Two-stage Fermentation under Thermophilic Conditions using Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME). Energy for Sustainable Development, 34. pp. 130-138. ISSN 0973-0826. (Published)
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Abstract
The present study dealt with hydrogen and methane production in a sequential up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) and continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) at thermophilic temperature. The POME was used as a suitable substrate of carbon source. The effect of various OLR was investigated from 25 kg-COD/m3·d to 125 kg-COD/m3·d at a constant hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 6 h. The UASB-H2 reactor was operated successfully at the OLR of 75 kg-COD/m3·d when the proportion of H2 in biogas, volumetric production rate of H2, specific hydrogen production rate (SHPR) and H2 yield reached the maximum values of 35%, 2.1 l/d, 175.15 ml H2/g MLVSS-d and 49.22 ml H2/g CODapplied respectively. Further, the effluent from the UASB was directly fed into the CSTR at various OLR ranging from 4 kg-COD/m3·d to 20 kg-COD/m3·d for CH4 production. The maximum CH4 content, volumetric production rate of CH4, specific methane production rate (SMPR) and CH4 yield obtained were 65%, 13 l/d, 325.13 ml CH4/g MLVSS-d, and 155.87 ml CH4/g CODapplied respectively. The effluent from CH4 reactor was recycled at feed flow rate recycle ratio of 1:1 to UASB unit and pH was maintained at 5.5, subsequently resulted in COD removal of 85%.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Renewable energy; Anaerobic digestion; Acidogenesis; Methanogenesis |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Faculty/Division: | Faculty of Engineering Technology |
| Depositing User: | Noorul Farina Arifin |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Nov 2016 06:49 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2017 02:23 |
| URI: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/15433 |
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