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http://dx.doi.org/10.17137/korrae.2016.24.1.21

Anaerobic Co-Digestion Characteristics of Food Waste Leachate and Sewage Sludge  

Lee, Suyoung (Waste-to-Energy Research Division, National Institute of Environmental Research)
Yoon, Young-Sam (Waste-to-Energy Research Division, National Institute of Environmental Research)
Kang, Jun-Gu (Waste-to-Energy Research Division, National Institute of Environmental Research)
Kim, Ki-Heon (Waste-to-Energy Research Division, National Institute of Environmental Research)
Shin, Sun Kyoung (Waste-to-Energy Research Division, National Institute of Environmental Research)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association / v.24, no.1, 2016 , pp. 21-29 More about this Journal
Abstract
We mix food waste leachate and sewage sludge by the proportion of 1:9, 3:7 and 5:5. It turns out that they produced 233, 298 and 344 $CH_4{\cdot}mL/g{\cdot}VS$ of methane gas. The result suggests that as the mixing rate of food waste leachate rises, the methane gas productions increases as well. And more methane gas is made when co-digesting sewage sludge and food waste leachate based on the mixing ratio, rather than digesting only sewage sludge alone. Modified Gompertz and Exponential Model describe the BMP test results that show how methane gas are produced from organic waste. According to the test, higher the mixing rate of food waste leachate is, higher the methane gas productions is. The mixing ratio of food waste leachate that produces the largest volume of methane gas is 3:7. Modified Gompertz model and Exponential model describe the test results very well. The correlation values($R^2$) that show how the results of model prediction and experiment are close is 0.92 to 0.98.
Keywords
Food waste leachate; Methane gas production; Sewage sludge; Model prediction;
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