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A Study on Anaerobic Treatment and Energy Recovery Technology of Food Waste by Using Hybrid Anaerobic Reactor  

Yoon Young-Bong (Department of Civil Engineering Graduate School Chonnam National University)
Park Jin-Young (Department of Ocean and Civil Engineering. Yosu National University)
Ju Jin-Young (Department of Civil Engineering Graduate School Chonnam National University)
Kim Myung-Ho (Department of Environmental Hygiene Engineering. Dong gang College)
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Journal of environmental and Sanitary engineering / v.20, no.1, 2005 , pp. 64-75 More about this Journal
Abstract
The total production of food waste was about 11,398ton/day('03) in Korea. Also, food waste was treated by landfill, incineration, reuse and anaerobic digestion. The method of food waste treatment depended primarily on landfill. However, the method of landfill causing social problems was prevented to treat food waste in the first of January 2005.12) Thus, anaerobic digestion is an important method to treat food waste because of possibility of energy recovery as methane gas. In this study, the possibility of food waste treatment containing high organic material and low pH in the one stage anaerobic reactor to save cost and time and energy recovery using $CH_{4}$ gas by the hybrid anaerobic reactor (HAR) was measured. The HAR was designed by combing the merits of the anaerobic filter (AF) to minimize the microorganism shock when food waste of very low pH was injected and up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) to prevent from plugging and channeling phenomena by large suspended solids when semi solids were injected. Granule was packed in the section of HAR. The purpose of the BMP experiment was to measure the amount of methane generated when organic material was resolved under anaerobic conditions, to grasp bio resolution of organic material. Total accumulated methane production per VS amount was $0.471(m^{3}/\cal{kg}\;VS)$. So, the value was about $81.2\%$ of theoretical methane production which was $0.58(m^{3}/\cal{kg}\;VS)$ by elementary analysis and organic matter removal velocity (K) was $0.18(d^{-1})$. From these results, food waste was treated by anaerobic treatment. From this study, $CH_{4}$ generation from food waste (11,398 ton/day) could be estimated. By using an energy conversion factor of Braun's study, $5.97KWh/m^{3}\;CH4,\;60\%\;of\;CH_{4}$ gas generation, the amount of total energy producing food waste is to 6,727MWh/day. It could be confirmed that energy recovery using $CH_{4}$ gas was possible. Above these results, food waste containing organic matters of high concentration could be treated in HRT 30 days under an anaerobic condition, using the hybrid anaerobic reactor and reuse of $CH_{4}$ gas was possible.
Keywords
Biochemical Methane Potential (BMP); Christensen Oil Equivalents; Food Waste; Hybrid Anaerobic Reactor (HAR); Organic Removal Constant (K); Ton Oil Equivalent (TOE);
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