Treatment of thin stillage in a high-rate anaerobic fluidized bed bioreactor (AFBR)

Mehran Andalib; Hisham Hafez; Elsayed Elbeshbishy; George Nakhla; Jesse Zhu

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2012.07.008

Treatment of thin stillage in a high-rate anaerobic fluidized bed bioreactor (AFBR)

Mehran Andalib, Hisham Hafez, Elsayed Elbeshbishy, George Nakhla, Jesse Zhu

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Abstract

The primary objective of this work was to investigate the treatability of thin stillage as a by-product of bioethanol production plants using an anaerobic fluidized bed bioreactor (AFBR) employing zeolite with average diameter of (d_m) of 425-610μm and specific surface area (SSA) of 26.5m²/g as the carrier media. Despite the very high strength of thin stillage with chemical oxygen demand of 130,000mgTCOD/L and suspended solids of 47,000mgTSS/L, the AFBR showed up to 88% TCOD and 78% TSS removal at very high organic and solids loading rates (OLR and SLR) of 29kg COD/m³d and 10.5kgTSS/m³d respectively and hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 3.5days. Methane production rates of up to 160L/d at the steady state equivalent to 40L_CH4/L_{thin stillage}d and biogas production rate per reactor volume of 15.8L_gas/L_reactord were achieved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	411-418
Number of pages	8
Journal	Bioresource Technology
Volume	121
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2012.07.008
Publication status	Published - Oct 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Fluidized bed bioreactor
High rate anaerobic digester
Suspended solids
Thin stillage

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Bioengineering
Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Waste Management and Disposal

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