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Li Z, You Z, Zhang L, Chen H. Effect of total solids content on anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge enhanced by high-temperature thermal hydrolysis. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2024; 359:120980. [PMID: 38669887 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2024] [Revised: 04/06/2024] [Accepted: 04/20/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024]
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Total solids (TS) content may provide a regulatory strategy for optimizing anaerobic digestion enhanced by high-temperature thermal hydrolysis, but the role of TS content is not yet clear. In this study, the effect of TS content on the high-temperature thermal hydrolysis and anaerobic digestion of sludge and its mechanism were investigated. The results showed that increasing the TS content from 2% to 8% increased the sludge solubility and methane production potential, reaching peak values of 26.6% and 336 ± 6 mL/g volatile solids (VS), respectively. With a further increase in TS content to 12%, the strong Maillard reaction increased the aromaticity and structural stability of extracellular polymer substances, decreasing sludge solubility to 18.6%. Furthermore, the decrease in sludge biodegradability and the formation of inhibitory by-products resulted in a reduction in methane production to 272 ± 4 mL/g VS. This article provides a new perspective to understand the role of TS content in the thermal hydrolysis of sludge and a novel approach to regulate the Maillard reaction.
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- Zeyu Li
- College of Environment and Resources, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, China
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- College of Environment and Resources, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, China.
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- College of Environment and Resources, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, China
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- College of Environment and Resources, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, China.
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Guo C, Lin S, Lyu T, Ma Y, Dong R, Liu S. Effect of reactor operation modes on mitigating antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and methane production from hydrothermally-pretreated pig manure. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2024; 244:117894. [PMID: 38092236 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2023] [Revised: 12/05/2023] [Accepted: 12/06/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023]
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Numerous efforts have been made to enhance the performance of anaerobic digestion (AD) for accelerating renewable energy generation, however, it remains unclear whether the intensified measures could enhance the proliferation and transmissions of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the system. This study assessed the impact of an innovative pig manure AD process, which includes hydrothermal pretreatment (HTP) and a two-stage configuration with separated acidogenic and methanogenic phases, on biomethane (CH4) production and ARGs dynamics. Results showed that HTP significantly increase CH4 production from 0.65 to 0.75 L/L/d in conventional single-stage AD to 0.82 and 0.91 L/L/d in two-stage AD. This improvement correlated with a rise in the relative abundance of Methanosarcina, a key methanogenesis microorganism. In the two-stage AD, the methanogenic stage offered an ideal environment for methanogens growth, resulting in substantially faster and higher CH4 production by about 10% compared to single-stage AD. Overall, the combined use of HTP and the two-stage AD configuration enhanced CH4 production by 40% compared to traditional single-stage AD. The abundance and diversity of ARGs were significantly reduced in the acidogenic reactors after HTP. However, the ARGs levels increased by about two times in the following methanogenesis stage and reached similar or higher levels than in single stage AD. The erm(F), erm(G), ant(6)-Ia, tet(W), mef(A) and erm(B) were the six main ARGs with significant differences in relative abundances in various treatments. The two-stage AD mode could better remove sul2, but it also had a rebound which elevated the risk of ARGs to the environment and human health. Network analysis identified pH and TVFAs as critical factors driving microbial communities and ARG proliferation in the new AD process. With the results, this study offers valuable insights into the trade-offs between AD performance enhancement and ARG-related risks, pinpointing essential areas for future research and practical improvements.
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- Chunchun Guo
- College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083, PR China
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- College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083, PR China
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- School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, College Road, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL, United Kingdom
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- College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083, PR China
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- College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083, PR China
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- College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083, PR China; Yantai Research Institute, China Agricultural University, Yantai, 264670, PR China.
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Yuan H, Zhu N. Progress of improving waste activated sludge dewaterability: Influence factors, conditioning technologies and implications and perspectives. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 912:168605. [PMID: 37989393 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2023] [Revised: 11/06/2023] [Accepted: 11/14/2023] [Indexed: 11/23/2023]
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Large amounts of waste activated sludge (WAS) as a by-product generated from the biological treatment in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is of high moisture content (MC), organic pollutants, heavy metals and pathogenic bacteria, it may cause serious environmental ecological risk without appropriate disposal. More than one half of the total operation cost is accounted for sludge disposal in a WWTP. Dewatering is an essential and important step during the sludge treatment and disposal process for it could efficiently reduce its volume, and be beneficial to the subsequent treatment and disposal of sludge. However, sludge should be conditioned before mechanical dewatering because of its high hydrophilicity. In this work, it presented a comprehensive review on sludge dewatering including summarizing the dewaterability measurement indexes, affecting factors, conditioning technologies, the improvement mechanisms. Finally, based on the eventual disposal and low carbon emission target, the implications and perspectives development of sludge conditioning were discussed. Based on the above discussion, there is no unified theoretical insight of the improvement mechanism of sludge dewaterability. In addition, the relationship between the microstructure of organic matters in sludge floc and the dewaterability should be deepened. Especially, how to choose the optimal conditioning technology for sludge dewatering lies in the physical and chemical properties of sludge, however, the carbon emission of the conditioning and dewatering process also needs to be considered. Accordingly, green, low-cost and organic conditioning agents are the direction of future research, and the establishment of automatic operating system and real-time evaluation index system is the key challenge.
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- Haiping Yuan
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Recovery, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, No.800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Recovery, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, No.800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China.
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Liu Y, Yuan H, Zhu N, Yuan Z. Effect of thermal hydrolysis pretreatment on the stabilization of sludge with different solid contents during autothermal thermophilic aerobic digestion. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2023:116347. [PMID: 37290618 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.116347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2023] [Revised: 06/04/2023] [Accepted: 06/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Sludge stabilization was affected by solid content during autothermal thermophilic aerobic digestion (ATAD). Thermal hydrolysis pretreatment (THP) could alleviate the issues of high viscosity, slow solubilization and low ATAD efficiency caused by increased solid content. The influence of THP on the stabilization of sludge with different solid contents (5.24%-17.14%) during ATAD was investigated in this study. The results demonstrated that stabilization was achieved with volatile solid (VS) removal of 39.0%-40.4% after 7-9 days of ATAD for sludge with solid content of 5.24%-17.14%. The solubilization of sludge with different solid contents reached 40.1%-45.0% after THP. The rheological analysis indicated that the apparent viscosity of sludge was obviously reduced after THP at different solid contents. The increase in fluorescence intensity of fulvic acid-like organics, soluble microbial by-products and humic acid-like organics in the supernatant after THP and the decrease in fluorescence intensity of soluble microbial by-products after ATAD were detected by excitation emission matrix (EEM). The molecular weight (MW) distribution in the supernatant elucidated that the proportion of 50 kDa < MW < 100 kDa increased to 16%-34% after THP and the proportion of 10 kDa < MW < 50 kDa decreased to 8%-24% after ATAD. High throughput sequencing showed that the dominant bacterial genera shifted from Acinetobacter, Defluviicoccus and Norank_f__norank_o__PeM15 to Sphaerobacter and Bacillus during ATAD. This work revealed that solid content of 13%-17% was appropriate for efficient ATAD and rapid stabilization under THP.
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- Yangyang Liu
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Solid Waste Treatment and Recovery, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Solid Waste Treatment and Recovery, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China.
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Solid Waste Treatment and Recovery, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China.
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Solid Waste Treatment and Recovery, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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Wang B, Zhang L, Shi J, Su Y, Wu D, Xie B. Genome-centric metagenomics revealed functional traits in high-solids anaerobic co-digestion of restaurant food waste, household food waste and rice straw. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2023; 376:128926. [PMID: 36940870 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2023.128926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2022] [Revised: 03/13/2023] [Accepted: 03/16/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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High-solids anaerobic co-digestion (HS-AcoD) of food waste (FW) and other organic wastes is an effective option to improve the biogas production and system stability compared to mono-digestion. However, the clean and sustainable HS-AcoD strategy for FW and associated microbial functional traits have not been well explored. Here, HS-AcoD of restaurant food waste (RFW), household food waste (HFW) and rice straw (RS) were performed. Results showed that the maximum synergy index (SI) of 1.28 were achieved when the volatile solids ratio of RFW, HFW and RS was 0.45:0.45:0.1. HS-AcoD alleviated the acidification process by regulating metabolism associated with hydrolysis and volatile fatty acids formation. The synergistic relationship between syntrophic bacteria and Methanothrix sp., and the enhanced metabolic capacity associated with the acetotrophic and hydrogenotrophic pathways dominated by Methanothrix sp., provided a further explanation of the synergistic mechanism. These findings advance the knowledge about microbial mechanisms underlying the synergistic effect of HS-AcoD.
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- Binghan Wang
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Biotransformation of Organic Solid Waste, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, PR China; Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, School of Ecological and Environmental Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, PR China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Biotransformation of Organic Solid Waste, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, PR China; Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, School of Ecological and Environmental Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, PR China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Biotransformation of Organic Solid Waste, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, PR China; Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, School of Ecological and Environmental Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, PR China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Biotransformation of Organic Solid Waste, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, PR China; Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, School of Ecological and Environmental Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, PR China; Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai 200092, PR China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Biotransformation of Organic Solid Waste, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, PR China; Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, School of Ecological and Environmental Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, PR China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Biotransformation of Organic Solid Waste, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, PR China; Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, School of Ecological and Environmental Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, PR China; Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai 200092, PR China.
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Zhong Y, He J, Wu F, Zhang P, Zou X, Pan X, Zhang J. Metagenomic analysis reveals the size effect of magnetite on anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge after thermal hydrolysis pretreatment. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 851:158133. [PMID: 35988621 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2022] [Revised: 08/14/2022] [Accepted: 08/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Although magnetite has been widely investigated in anaerobic digestion (AD), its role in the practical AD of waste-activated sludge (WAS) after thermal hydrolysis pretreatment (THP) and its size effect remain unclear. In this study, magnetite with four different particle sizes was added during the AD of WAS after THP. With the reduction of magnetite particle size, cumulative methane production was increased, while the optimal dosage of magnetite decreased, with 0.1 μm magnetite at an optimal dosage of 2 g/L achieving the highest cumulative methane production increase of 111.97 % compared with the blank group (without magnetite). Smaller magnetite particles increased α-glucosidase and protease activities, coenzyme F420 concentration, and electron-transport system activity (20.30 %, 173.02 %, 60.39 % and 158.08 % higher respectively than the blank group). The size of magnetite also influenced the establishment of direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) during AD. Based on the analysis of the pilA gene abundance, magnetite with a large particle size could promote the formation of e-pili in syntrophic electroactive bacteria (Clostridium, Syntrophomonas, and Pseudomonas) and methanogens (Methanospirillum), thereby completing electron transfer. However, small-sized magnetite particles stimulated DIET by enhancing the secretion of conductive proteins in extracellular polymeric substances and membrane-bound enzymes (Fpo) in Methanosarcina.
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- Yijie Zhong
- School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China.
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- School of Civil Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire MK43 0AL, UK
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- School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China
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