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Mortezaei Y, Williams MR, Demirer GN. The fate of antibiotic resistance genes during anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge with ultrasonic pretreatment. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2024; 31:5513-5525. [PMID: 38127236 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-31558-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2023] [Accepted: 12/11/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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This study investigated the effect of ultrasonic (US) pretreatment at three different contact times (30, 45, and 60 min) with a power of 240 W and frequency of 40 kHz on the fate of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), mobile genetic elements (MGEs), and enteric pathogens during anaerobic digestion (AD) of sludge. By using real time-qPCR, three MGEs (int1, int2, and tnpA) and seven ARGs (sul1, sul2, tetW, tetA, tetO, ermF, and aac(6')-lb) were quantified that have serious human health impacts and represent the most widely used antibiotics (tetracycline, sulfonamide, macrolide, and aminoglycoside). Results indicated that US pretreatment under different contact times improved the removal of ARGs and MGEs. Compared to 30 and 45 min of US pretreatment, 60 min of US pretreatment resulted in a higher reduction of ARGs with total ARG reduction of 41.70 ± 1.13%. Furthermore, the relative abundance of ARGs and MGEs after US pretreatment was reduced more effectively in anaerobic reactors than in a control AD without US pretreatment. The total ARGs and MGEs removal efficiency of control AD was 44.07 ± 0.72% and 63.69 ± 1.43%, and if US pretreatment at different times were applied, the total ARGs and MGEs removal efficiency of the whole pretreatment AD process improved to 59.71 ± 2.76-68.54 ± 1.58% and 69.82 ± 2.15-76.84 ± 0.22%. The highest removal of total ARGs (68.54 ± 1.58%) and MGEs (76.84 ± 0.22%) was achieved after AD with US pretreatment at 45 min. However, US pretreatment and AD with US pretreatment were not effective in inactivation of enteric pathogens (total coliforms and E. coli), suggesting that posttreatment is needed prior to land application of sludge to reduce the level of enteric pathogens. There was no detection of the studied ARGs and MGEs in the enteric pathogens after US pretreatment in subsequent AD. According to this study, long contact times of US pretreatment can mitigate ARGs and MGEs in AD processes, offering valuable insight into improving environmental safety and sustainable waste management. Additionally, the study highlights the need to investigate posttreatment techniques for reducing enteric pathogens in AD effluent, a crucial consideration for agricultural use and environmental protection.
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- Yasna Mortezaei
- Earth and Ecosystem Science, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, USA
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- School of Engineering and Technology, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, USA
- Institute for Great Lakes Research, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, USA
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- School of Engineering and Technology, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, USA.
- Institute for Great Lakes Research, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, USA.
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Lorine D, Céline D, Caroline LM, Frédéric B, Lorette H, Julie B, Laure M, Christine Z, Typhaine P, Sandra R, Emmanuelle H, Rabab SZ, Jeanne C, Anne-Marie P. Influence of operating conditions on the persistence of E. coli, enterococci, Clostridium perfringens and Clostridioides difficile in semi-continuous mesophilic anaerobic reactors. WASTE MANAGEMENT (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2021; 134:32-41. [PMID: 34403994 DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2021.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2021] [Revised: 06/30/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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This study examined the combined effect of hydraulic retention time (HRT), organic loading rate (OLR) and heat pretreatment of manure (70 °C, 1 h) on the fate of E. coli, enterococci, C. perfringens, C. difficile, and on chemical parameters (volatile fatty acids and ammonia) that may inactivate pathogens. Semi-continuous mesophilic anaerobic reactors were fed with pig manure and horse feed. The operating conditions were 2, 3, 4 COD.L-1.d-1 (OLR), 24, 35, 46 days (HRT) and use or not of a thermal pretreatment. The levels of the chemical parameters did not reach concentrations capable of inactivating the four bacteria. Anaerobic digestion led to a Log10 removal > 3 (E. coli), 0.9-2.1 (enterococci), 0.1-0.6 (C. perfringens) and 0-1 (C. difficile). Increasing HRT only reduced the concentration of E. coli in the digestate. Increasing OLR reduced the Log10 removal of enterococci and C. difficile. The heat pretreatment led to non-detection of E. coli in the digestate, reduced the concentration of C. perfringens by 0.8-1.3 Log10 and increased the concentration of C. difficile by 0.04-0.7 Log10. Enterococci, not detected in the heated manure, were present in the digestate. The distribution of genes encoding virulence factors of C. difficile (tcdA and tcdB) and C. perfringens (cpa, cpb2 and cpb) was not impacted by anaerobic digestion or by the heat pretreatment. Enterococci, C. perfringens, C. difficile were present in the digestate at relatively stable concentrations regardless of the operating conditions, indicating that even with heat pretreatment, the biosafety of digestate cannot be guaranteed in mesophilic conditions.
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- Derongs Lorine
- INRAE, OPAALE Research Unit, CS 64427, F-35044 Rennes, France
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- INRAE, OPAALE Research Unit, CS 64427, F-35044 Rennes, France
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- ANSES, Ploufragan-Plouzané Laboratory, Hygiene and Quality of Poultry and Pig Products Unit, BP53, F-22440 Ploufragan, France
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- National Reference Laboratory for Clostridium difficile, Saint-Antoine Hospital, Assistance Publique- Hôpitaux de Paris, 34 rue Crozatier, 75012 Paris, France; UMR INSERM S-1139, Faculté de Pharmacie de Paris, Université de Paris, France
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- INRAE, OPAALE Research Unit, CS 64427, F-35044 Rennes, France
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- ANSES, Ploufragan-Plouzané Laboratory, Hygiene and Quality of Poultry and Pig Products Unit, BP53, F-22440 Ploufragan, France
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- ANSES, Ploufragan-Plouzané Laboratory, Hygiene and Quality of Poultry and Pig Products Unit, BP53, F-22440 Ploufragan, France
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- ANSES, Ploufragan-Plouzané Laboratory, Hygiene and Quality of Poultry and Pig Products Unit, BP53, F-22440 Ploufragan, France
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- ANSES, Ploufragan-Plouzané Laboratory, Hygiene and Quality of Poultry and Pig Products Unit, BP53, F-22440 Ploufragan, France
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- National Reference Laboratory for Clostridium difficile, Saint-Antoine Hospital, Assistance Publique- Hôpitaux de Paris, 34 rue Crozatier, 75012 Paris, France; UMR INSERM S-1139, Faculté de Pharmacie de Paris, Université de Paris, France
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- National Reference Laboratory for Clostridium difficile, Saint-Antoine Hospital, Assistance Publique- Hôpitaux de Paris, 34 rue Crozatier, 75012 Paris, France; UMR INSERM S-1139, Faculté de Pharmacie de Paris, Université de Paris, France
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Zhang C, Liu X, Wang Q, Tang Y, Pavlostathis SG. Comparative assessment of pre- and inter-stage hydrothermal treatment of municipal sludge for increased methane production. WATER ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH : A RESEARCH PUBLICATION OF THE WATER ENVIRONMENT FEDERATION 2021; 93:1126-1137. [PMID: 33523520 DOI: 10.1002/wer.1523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2020] [Revised: 01/01/2021] [Accepted: 01/21/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Hydrothermal treatment (HT) is a promising technology to enhance anaerobic digestion (AD) of municipal sludge. However, the capacity of pre- and inter-stage HT (i.e., HT-AD and AD-HT-AD, respectively) to enhance the digestibility of municipal sludge has not been sufficiently explored. This study compared the efficacy of pre- and inter-stage HT performed from 90 to 185°C to enhance methane production from a mixture of primary sludge and waste activated sludge using mesophilic (35°C) biochemical methane potential tests. In both configurations, sludge solubilization increased with HT temperature. HT-AD, and to a greater extent AD-HT-AD, increased the release of ammonium nitrogen. Even though HT at 185°C dramatically increased sludge solubilization, the overall specific methane yield with HT at 185°C was lower than or comparable to that at lower HT temperatures in the HT-AD and AD-HT-AD configurations, respectively. Up to 155°C HT, the overall specific methane yield with the HT-AD configuration was higher by 4.9%-8.3% compared to the AD-HT-AD configuration. However, when the HT energy was considered, compared to the control (i.e., AD of sludge without HT), the net energy gain (ΔE) decreased as the HT temperature increased, becoming negative at an HT of 185°C. The AD-HT-AD configuration resulted in a higher overall volatile solids destruction (by 8.1 to 20.1%). In conclusion, for municipal sludge with a relatively high ultimate digestibility, as was the case in this study, HT-AD is preferable as it has a smaller footprint and is easier to operate than the AD-HT-AD configuration. However, given the significantly higher volatile solids destruction in the AD-HT-AD configuration, compared to the HT-AD configuration, AD-HT-AD may be more beneficial considering post-AD sludge handling processes. PRACTITIONER POINTS: Hydrothermal treatment (HT) increased the rate and extent of methane production from municipal sludge mixture. 155°C was the optimal temperature for either pre- or inter-stage HT to increase biogas production. Pre- and inter-stage HT resulted in comparable ultimate methane production. Pre-stage HT is preferable to inter-stage HT (smaller footprint, easier to operate). AD-HT-AD resulted in significantly higher volatile solids destruction compared to the HT-AD configuration.
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- Chiqian Zhang
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Agga GE, Kasumba J, Loughrin JH, Conte ED. Anaerobic Digestion of Tetracycline Spiked Livestock Manure and Poultry Litter Increased the Abundances of Antibiotic and Heavy Metal Resistance Genes. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:614424. [PMID: 33391245 PMCID: PMC7775313 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.614424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2020] [Accepted: 11/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Anaerobic digestion is used for the treatment of animal manure by generating biogas. Heavy metals cause environmental pollutions and co-select for antimicrobial resistance. We evaluated the impact of mesophilic anaerobic digestion of cattle manure (CM), swine manure (SM) and poultry litter (PL) on the concentrations of seven tetracycline [tet(A), tet(B), tet(G), tet(M), tet(O), tet(Q), and tet(W)], macrolide [erm(B)], methicillin (mecA and mecC), copper (copB, pcoA, pcoD, and tcrB) and zinc (czrC) resistance genes, and three bacterial species (E. coli, Enterococcus spp. and Staphylococcus aureus). The total bacterial population and total abundance of the seven tet genes significantly increased in the three manure types after digestion. Concentration of tet(M) was strongly correlated with that of erm(B) and enterococci. As concentration of tetracyclines declined during anaerobic digestion, that of four tet genes (A, B, Q, and W) and 16S rRNA increased, that of tet(M) decreased, and that of tet(G) and tet(O) did not change. Concentrations of copB and pcoA did not change; while that of pcoD did not change in the PL, it increased in the SM and CM. While the concentration of enterococci remained unchanged in CM, it significantly increased in the PL and SM. Concentrations of tcrB significantly increased in the three manure types. While concentrations of S. aureus significantly increased in the CM and PL, that of SM was not affected. Concentrations of mecC significantly increased in all manure types after digestion; while mecA concentrations did not change in the SM, they significantly increased in CM and PL. While concentration of czrC remained low in the CM, it increased in the PL but declined in the SM. In conclusion, while mesophilic anaerobic digestion of animal manure decreased concentration of tetracyclines, it increased the concentrations of total bacteria, tet genes, E. coli, enterococci and S. aureus and methicillin resistance genes. It did not have any effect on concentrations of heavy metals; concentrations of heavy metal resistance genes either increased or remained unaffected depending on the animal species. This study showed the need for post-digestion treatments of animal manure to remove bacteria, antibiotic resistance genes, heavy metals and their resistance genes.
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- Getahun E Agga
- USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Food Animal Environmental Systems Research Unit, Bowling Green, KY, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, United States
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- USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Food Animal Environmental Systems Research Unit, Bowling Green, KY, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, United States
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Tápparo DC, Viancelli A, Amaral ACD, Fongaro G, Steinmetz RLR, Magri ME, Barardi CRM, Kunz A. Sanitary effectiveness and biogas yield by anaerobic co-digestion of swine carcasses and manure. ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY 2020; 41:682-690. [PMID: 30080477 DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2018.1508256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2018] [Accepted: 07/28/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The present study evaluated anaerobic co-digestion of swine manure and swine carcasses for biogas yield and inactivation/behaviour of pathogens purpose. Biochemical Methane Production tests were performed with samples containing ratios of 3, 7.5 and 15 kgcarcass m-3 manure. For pathogens inactivation experiments known amounts of model microrganisms (sensitive and resistant) were artificially inoculated in anaerobic reactors at 24°C and 37°C. The addition of carcass resulted in an increase until 119% of biogas yield compared to swine manure mono-digestion. Salmonella enterica, Escherichia coli and PCV2 were reduced >3log10 (24°C or 37°C) during 30 days. At 37°C, MS2 and PhiX-174 were reduced 3log10 and 1.8log10, respectively. At 24°C, MS2 reduced 1.5 log10 and PhiX-174 did not present any decay over 30 days. Considering the most resistant biomarkers pathogens, as bacteriophage, we recommend the swine carcasses pre-treatment, such as high temperatures, for sanitary security.
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- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - PPGBB, Florianópolis, Brazil
- Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul - PPGCTA, Erechim, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - PPGBB, Florianópolis, Brazil
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- Western Paraná State University - UNIOESTE/CCET/PGEAGRI, Cascavel, Brazil
- Embrapa Suínos e Aves, Concórdia, Brazil
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Testolin RC, Lima AOS, Strutz JM, Corrêa R, Poyer-Radetski G, Cesconetto L, Felde A, Radetski CM. Remediation efficiency of different methods for rapid-response of microbiological and/or organic matter contaminated beach sand: A laboratory study. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2019; 141:84-90. [PMID: 30955784 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.02.020] [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: 08/20/2018] [Revised: 02/05/2019] [Accepted: 02/11/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In this article we compare the efficiency of different methods of rapid-response remediation of beach sand contaminated with microbiological and/or organic matter. Contaminated beach sands were treated in laboratory by different treatment methods (i.e., oxidation, UV-photoexposure, or thermal methods) and the efficiency of disinfection and breakdown of organic matter were evaluated. Contaminants in raw and treated beach sands were measured by membrane filtration method, and by chemical and biochemical oxygen demand, and chromatographic analysis. All the methods tested were efficient for disinfecting beach sand with microbiological contamination, except for the UV-photoexposure method, which showed only moderate disinfection potential. Chemical degradation efficiency of beach sand contaminated by crude petroleum was higher with Fenton and Photo-Fenton (associated with the use of surfactant and ultrasound) methods. Photo-Fenton method improvement can increase the efficiency of contaminated beach sand treatment, and can also help beach managers when selecting which method to adopt for remedial actions.
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- Renan C Testolin
- Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Laboratório de Remediação Ambiental, Itajaí, SC 88302-202, Brazil
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- Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Laboratório de Genética Molecular, Itajaí, SC 88302-202, Brazil
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- Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Laboratório de Genética Molecular, Itajaí, SC 88302-202, Brazil
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- Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Laboratório de Síntese Orgânica, Itajaí, SC 88302-202, Brazil
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- Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Laboratório de Geologia e Mineralogia, Florianópolis, SC 88035-001, Brazil
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- Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Laboratório de Remediação Ambiental, Itajaí, SC 88302-202, Brazil
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- Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Laboratório de Remediação Ambiental, Itajaí, SC 88302-202, Brazil
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- Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Laboratório de Remediação Ambiental, Itajaí, SC 88302-202, Brazil.
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Scaglia B, Tambone F, Corno L, Orzi V, Lazzarini Y, Garuti G, Adani F. Potential agronomic and environmental properties of thermophilic anaerobically digested municipal sewage sludge measured by an unsupervised and a supervised chemometric approach. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2018; 637-638:791-802. [PMID: 29758434 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2017] [Revised: 04/29/2018] [Accepted: 04/30/2018] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Anaerobic digestion (AD) is the most widely used method of sewage sludge treatment (SS) before its agricultural use. AD achieves the required "sterilisation" of pathogens and is able to cover the energy required by the process, reducing pre-treatment costs, thanks to the production of biogas. The SS agronomic (fertilizer properties), environmental (pollutants contents) characteristics and nuisance to people (odours and pathogens) need to be evaluated together for the safe and useful deployment of SS in agriculture. To evaluate SS properties an unsupervised (Principal Component Analysis) and a supervised (K nearest neighbours) chemometric approach was applied to rank digested SS for agronomic and environmental properties in comparison with other organic matrices for which the agronomic and/or environmental properties are well known or expected. To do so, complete chemical, biological and "impact on people" characterization was carried out on SS ingestate (SS-ing.) and SS digestate (SS-dig.) and another 10 biomasses. The SS-AD process enhanced the agronomic properties of sewage sludge and did not lead to a substantial concentration of pollutants because of the low degradation of organic matter. The best PCA performances were reached for amendment and fertilizer modules but the results found for the environment and nuisance to inhabitants were not satisfactory. The KNN approach proposed to evaluate the suitability of a biomass for agricultural purposes, represents a win-win approach as it allows one to avoid time-consuming and costly full field studies.
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- Barbara Scaglia
- Gruppo Ricicla Labs - DiSAA, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 2, Milano, Italy
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- Gruppo Ricicla Labs - DiSAA, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 2, Milano, Italy
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- Gruppo Ricicla Labs - DiSAA, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 2, Milano, Italy
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- Gruppo Ricicla Labs - DiSAA, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 2, Milano, Italy
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- Acqua e Sole, Centro Operativo, Via Giulio Natta, 27010 Vellezzo Bellini (PV), Italy
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- Acqua e Sole, Centro Operativo, Via Giulio Natta, 27010 Vellezzo Bellini (PV), Italy
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- Gruppo Ricicla Labs - DiSAA, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 2, Milano, Italy.
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Wallace JS, Garner E, Pruden A, Aga DS. Occurrence and transformation of veterinary antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in dairy manure treated by advanced anaerobic digestion and conventional treatment methods. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2018; 236:764-772. [PMID: 29455089 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.02.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2017] [Revised: 02/06/2018] [Accepted: 02/06/2018] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Manure treatment technologies are rapidly developing to minimize eutrophication of surrounding environments and potentially decrease the introduction of antibiotics and antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs) into the environment. While laboratory and pilot-scale manure treatment systems boast promising results, antibiotic and ARG removals in full-scale systems receiving continuous manure input have not been evaluated. The effect of treatment on ARGs is similarly lacking. This study examines the occurrence and transformation of sulfonamides, tetracyclines, tetracycline degradation products, and related ARGs throughout a full-scale advanced anaerobic digester (AAD) receiving continuous manure and antibiotic input. Manure samples were collected throughout the AAD system to evaluate baseline antibiotic and ARG input (raw manure), the effect of hygenization (post-pasteurized manure) and anaerobic digestion (post-digestion manure) on antibiotic and ARG levels. Antibiotics were analyzed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), and the ARGs tet(O), tet(W), sul1 and sul2 were analyzed by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (Q-PCR). Significant reductions in the concentrations of chlortetracycline, oxytetracycline, tetracycline and their degradation products were observed in manure liquids following treatment (p < 0.001), concomitant to significant increases in manure solids (p < 0.001). These results suggest sorption is the major removal route for tetracyclines during AAD. Significant decreases in the epimer-to-total residue ratios for chlortetracycline and tetracycline in manure solids further indicate degradation is desorption-limited. Moreover, sul1 and sul2 copies decreased significantly (p < 0.001) following AAD in the absence of sulfonamide antibiotics, while tetracyclines-resistant genes remained unchanged. A cross-sectional study of dairy farms utilizing natural aeration and liquid-solid separation treatments was additionally performed to compare levels of antibiotics and ARGs found in AAD with the levels in common manure management systems. The concentration of antibiotics in raw manure varied greatly between farms while minimal differences in ARGs were observed. However, significant (p < 0.01) differences in the levels of antibiotics and ARGs (except tet(W)) were observed in the effluents from the three different manure management systems.
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- Joshua S Wallace
- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo-The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo-The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA.
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Loeb S, Li C, Kim JH. Solar Photothermal Disinfection using Broadband-Light Absorbing Gold Nanoparticles and Carbon Black. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2018; 52:205-213. [PMID: 29240431 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b04442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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A simple heat treatment, perhaps the most globally recognized point-of-use water sterilization method, is seemingly effective against all major pathogens of concern, but bulk water boiling is not energy efficient or sustainable. Herein, we present the first application of solar-to-thermal converting nanomaterials for the direct inactivation of bacteria and viruses in drinking water through the application of Au nanorods, carbon black, and Au nanorod-carbon black composite materials as light absorbers. With broad absorption bands spanning the visible and near-infrared wavelengths, at sufficient concentrations, these nanoparticles induce multiple scattering events, increasing photon absorption probability and concentrating the light within a small spatial domain, leading to localized, intense heating that inactivates microorganisms in close proximity. Moving toward practical device design, we have developed a facile silane immobilization approach to fabricate films with densely packed layers of photothermal nanomaterials. Our results suggest that upon irraditaion with simulated solar light, these films can thermally inactivate bacteria and viruses, as demonstrated through the inactivation of surrogate organisms Escherichia coli K-12, and bacteriophages MS2 and PR772.
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- Stephanie Loeb
- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT), Yale University , 17 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT), Yale University , 17 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States
- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University , Guangzhou, Guangdong China
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- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT), Yale University , 17 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States
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Broad and increasing interest in sustainable wastewater treatment has led a paradigm shift towards more efficient means of treatment system operation. A key aspect of improving overall sustainability is the potential for direct wastewater effluent reuse. Anaerobic membrane bioreactors (AnMBRs) have been identified as an attractive option for producing high quality and nutrient-rich effluents during the treatment of municipal wastewaters. The introduction of direct effluent reuse does, however, raise several safety concerns related to its application. Among those concerns are the microbial threats associated with pathogenic bacteria as well as the emerging issues associated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the potential for proliferation of antibiotic resistance genes. Although there is substantial research evaluating these topics from the perspectives of anaerobic digestion and membrane bioreactors separately, little is known regarding how AnMBR systems can contribute to pathogen and antibiotic resistance removal and propagation in wastewater effluents. The aim of this review is to provide a current assessment of existing literature on anaerobic and membrane-based treatment systems as they relate to these microbial safety issues and utilize this assessment to identify areas of potential future research to evaluate the suitability of AnMBRs for direct effluent reuse.
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Mayer BK, Baker LA, Boyer TH, Drechsel P, Gifford M, Hanjra MA, Parameswaran P, Stoltzfus J, Westerhoff P, Rittmann BE. Total Value of Phosphorus Recovery. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2016; 50:6606-20. [PMID: 27214029 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b01239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 240] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Phosphorus (P) is a critical, geographically concentrated, nonrenewable resource necessary to support global food production. In excess (e.g., due to runoff or wastewater discharges), P is also a primary cause of eutrophication. To reconcile the simultaneous shortage and overabundance of P, lost P flows must be recovered and reused, alongside improvements in P-use efficiency. While this motivation is increasingly being recognized, little P recovery is practiced today, as recovered P generally cannot compete with the relatively low cost of mined P. Therefore, P is often captured to prevent its release into the environment without beneficial recovery and reuse. However, additional incentives for P recovery emerge when accounting for the total value of P recovery. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the range of benefits of recovering P from waste streams, i.e., the total value of recovering P. This approach accounts for P products, as well as other assets that are associated with P and can be recovered in parallel, such as energy, nitrogen, metals and minerals, and water. Additionally, P recovery provides valuable services to society and the environment by protecting and improving environmental quality, enhancing efficiency of waste treatment facilities, and improving food security and social equity. The needs to make P recovery a reality are also discussed, including business models, bottlenecks, and policy and education strategies.
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- Brooke K Mayer
- Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Marquette University , Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233, United States
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- Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota , St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, United States
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- Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE), University of Florida , P.O. Box 116450, Gainesville, Florida 32611-6450, United States
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI), P.O. Box 2075, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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- School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University , 660 South College Avenue, Tempe, Arizona 85281, United States
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI), P.O. Box 2075, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Kansas State University , 2118 Fiedler Hall, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, United States
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- School of Sustainability, Arizona State University , 800 South Cady Mall, Tempe, Arizona 85281, United States
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- School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University , 660 South College Avenue, Tempe, Arizona 85281, United States
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- Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Arizona State University , P.O. Box 875701, Tempe, Arizona 85287-5701, United States
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Oosterkamp MJ, Méndez-García C, Kim CH, Bauer S, Ibáñez AB, Zimmerman S, Hong PY, Cann IK, Mackie RI. Lignocellulose-derived thin stillage composition and efficient biological treatment with a high-rate hybrid anaerobic bioreactor system. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2016; 9:120. [PMID: 27274357 PMCID: PMC4895995 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-016-0532-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2016] [Accepted: 05/19/2016] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND This study aims to chemically characterize thin stillage derived from lignocellulosic biomass distillation residues in terms of organic strength, nutrient, and mineral content. The feasibility of performing anaerobic digestion on these stillages at mesophilic (40 °C) and thermophilic (55 °C) temperatures to produce methane was demonstrated. The microbial communities involved were further characterized. RESULTS Energy and sugar cane stillage have a high chemical oxygen demand (COD of 43 and 30 g/L, respectively) and low pH (pH 4.3). Furthermore, the acetate concentration in sugar cane stillage was high (45 mM) but was not detected in energy cane stillage. There was also a high amount of lactate in both types of stillage (35-37 mM). The amount of sugars was 200 times higher in energy cane stillage compared to sugar cane stillage. Although there was a high concentration of sulfate (18 and 23 mM in sugar and energy cane stillage, respectively), both thin stillages were efficiently digested anaerobically with high COD removal under mesophilic and thermophilic temperature conditions and with an organic loading rate of 15-21 g COD/L/d. The methane production rate was 0.2 L/g COD, with a methane percentage of 60 and 64, and 92 and 94 % soluble COD removed, respectively, by the mesophilic and thermophilic reactors. Although both treatment processes were equally efficient, there were different microbial communities involved possibly arising from the differences in the composition of energy cane and sugar cane stillage. There was more acetic acid in sugar cane stillage which may have promoted the occurrence of aceticlastic methanogens to perform a direct conversion of acetate to methane in reactors treating sugar cane stillage. CONCLUSIONS Results showed that thin stillage contains easily degradable compounds suitable for anaerobic digestion and that hybrid reactors can efficiently convert thin stillage to methane under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions. Furthermore, we found that optimal conditions for biological treatment of thin stillage were similar for both mesophilic and thermophilic reactors. Bar-coded pyrosequencing of the 16S rRNA gene identified different microbial communities in mesophilic and thermophilic reactors and these differences in the microbial communities could be linked to the composition of the thin stillage.
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- Margreet J. Oosterkamp
- />Institute for Genomic Biology, and Department of Animal Sciences, Energy Biosciences Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1207 W Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
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- />Institute for Genomic Biology, and Department of Animal Sciences, Energy Biosciences Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1207 W Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
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- />Institute for Genomic Biology, and Department of Animal Sciences, Energy Biosciences Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1207 W Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
- />Department of Animal, Life and Environment Science, Biogas Research Center, Hankyong National University, 327 Jungang-ro, Anseong-si, Gyeonggi-do 456-749 South Korea
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- />Energy Biosciences Institute, University of California at Berkeley, 120A Energy Biosciences Building, 2151 Berkeley Way, MC 5230, Berkeley, CA 94729, USA
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- />Energy Biosciences Institute, University of California at Berkeley, 120A Energy Biosciences Building, 2151 Berkeley Way, MC 5230, Berkeley, CA 94729, USA
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- />Energy Biosciences Institute, University of California at Berkeley, 120A Energy Biosciences Building, 2151 Berkeley Way, MC 5230, Berkeley, CA 94729, USA
- />BP Biofuels, University of California at Berkeley, 120A Energy Biosciences Building, 2151 Berkeley Way, MC 5230, Berkeley, CA 94729 USA
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- />Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division (BESE), Water Desalination and Reuse Center (WDRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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- />Institute for Genomic Biology, and Department of Animal Sciences, Energy Biosciences Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1207 W Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
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- />Institute for Genomic Biology, and Department of Animal Sciences, Energy Biosciences Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1207 W Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
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Wu B, Zhang X, Bao D, Xu Y, Zhang S, Deng L. Biomethane production system: Energetic analysis of various scenarios. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2016; 206:155-163. [PMID: 26855289 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.01.086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2015] [Revised: 01/18/2016] [Accepted: 01/21/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The energy consumption models of biomethane production system were established, which are more rigorous and universal than the empirical data reported by previous biomethane system energetic assessment work. The energy efficiencies of different scenarios considering factors such as two digestion modes, two heating modes of digester, with or without heat exchange between slurry and feedstock, and four crude biogas upgrading technologies were evaluated. Results showed the scenario employing thermophilic digestion and high pressure water scrubbing technology, with heat exchange between feedstock and slurry, and heat demand of digester supplied by the energy source outside the system has the highest energy efficiency (46.5%) and lowest energy consumption (13.46 MJth/Nm(3) CH4), while scenario employing mesophilic digestion and pressure swing adsorption technology, without heat exchange and heat demand of digester supplied by combusting the biogas produced inside the system has the lowest energy efficiency (15.8%) and highest energy consumption (34.90 MJth/Nm(3) CH4).
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- Bin Wu
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process, Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process, Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process, Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process, Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process, Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim 7491, Norway
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Ariunbaatar J, Panico A, Yeh DH, Pirozzi F, Lens PNL, Esposito G. Enhanced mesophilic anaerobic digestion of food waste by thermal pretreatment: Substrate versus digestate heating. WASTE MANAGEMENT (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2015; 46:176-181. [PMID: 26272711 DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2015.07.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2015] [Revised: 07/12/2015] [Accepted: 07/28/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Food waste (FW) represents a source of high potential renewable energy if properly treated with anaerobic digestion (AD). Pretreating the substrates could yield a higher biomethane production in a shorter time. In this study, the effects of thermal (heating the FW in a separate chamber) and thermophilic (heating the full reactor content containing both FW and inoculum) pretreatments at 50, 60, 70 and 80°C prior to mesophilic AD were studied through a series of batch experiments. Pretreatments at a lower temperature (50°C) and a shorter time (<12h) had a positive effect on the AD process. The highest enhancement of the biomethane production with an increase by 44-46% was achieved with a thermophilic pretreatment at 50°C for 6-12h or a thermal pretreatment at 80°C for 1.5h. Thermophilic pretreatments at higher temperatures (>55°C) and longer operating times (>12h) yielded higher soluble chemical oxygen demand (CODs), but had a negative effect on the methanogenic activity. The thermal pretreatments at the same conditions resulted in a lower solubilization of COD. Based on net energy calculations, the enhanced biomethane production is sufficient to heat up the FW for the thermal, but not for the thermophilic pretreatment.
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- Javkhlan Ariunbaatar
- Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Via Di Biasio, 43, 03043 Cassino, FR, Italy.
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- Telematic University Pegaso, Piazza Trieste e Trento, 48, 80132 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida, 4204 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
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- Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Via Claudio, 21, 80125 Naples, Italy
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- UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Westvest 7, 2611 AX Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Via Di Biasio, 43, 03043 Cassino, FR, Italy
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Sabra W, Röske I, Sahm K, Antranikian G, Zeng AP. High temperature biogas reactors to treat stillage from an industrial bioethanol process: Metabolic and microbial characterization. Eng Life Sci 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/elsc.201500040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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- Wael Sabra
- Institute of Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering; Hamburg University of Technology; Hamburg Germany
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- Institute of Technical Microbiology; Hamburg University of Technology; Hamburg Germany
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- Institute of Technical Microbiology; Hamburg University of Technology; Hamburg Germany
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- Institute of Technical Microbiology; Hamburg University of Technology; Hamburg Germany
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- Institute of Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering; Hamburg University of Technology; Hamburg Germany
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Scaglia B, Pognani M, Adani F. Evaluation of hormone-like activity of the dissolved organic matter fraction (DOM) of compost and digestate. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2015; 514:314-321. [PMID: 25668284 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2014] [Revised: 02/02/2015] [Accepted: 02/03/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Biomasses are usually applied to soil for their agronomic properties (fertilization and amendment properties). Biomass can also have bio-stimulating effects on plants because of the presence of hormones and hormone-like molecules. Although compost has been the subject for studies of this aspect, no data have yet been reported on the extraction of this kind of molecule from digestate biomass. The aim of this work is to study the auxin- and gibberellin-like activity of pig slurry digestate in comparison with those of pruning and garden wastes compost's dissolved organic fraction (DOM). DOM (i.e., fraction<0.45 μm) is the most reactive among the organic matter fractions readily available to microbial and plant metabolism. No gibberellin-like activities were found for either compost or digestate, whereas digestate showed auxin-like properties which were found to be located in its neutral hydrophobic (NHo) DOM fractions. Hormone activity was due principally to the presence of auxin coming from the anaerobic digestion of aromatic amino acids.
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- Barbara Scaglia
- GRUPPO RICICLA, Dipartimento di Science Agrarie e Ambientali: Produzione, Territorio, Agroenergia, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano, Italy.
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- GRUPPO RICICLA, Dipartimento di Science Agrarie e Ambientali: Produzione, Territorio, Agroenergia, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- GRUPPO RICICLA, Dipartimento di Science Agrarie e Ambientali: Produzione, Territorio, Agroenergia, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano, Italy
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Rosenblum J, Bisesi M, Castano J, Tamkin A, Ciotola R, Lee J, Martin J. Influence of seasonal fluctuation and loading rates on microbial and chemical indicators during semi-continuous anaerobic digestion. ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY 2015; 36:1308-1318. [PMID: 25515031 DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2014.986537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Minimal attention is paid towards the performance of the 40 million small-scale digesters which frequently operate at psychrophilic temperatures. Understanding the levels of microbial and chemical indicators at various loading rates and temperatures is useful for improving treatment efficiency and management strategies for small-scale digesters. In this study, semi-continuous anaerobic digesters were operated in replicate at four different loading rates (control, 0.3, 0.8 and 1.3 kg VS/m(3)/day) and housed in an environment that simulated seasonal change (27.5°C,10°C and 27.5°C). The results illustrate that class B quality biosolids were generated for all treatments as per guidelines from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). The simulated seasonal change did not influence Escherichia coli or faecal coliform levels, while it did appear to have an effect upon levels of Enterococci. Reduced loading rates led to a more stable environment (in terms of pH, levels of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) and total inorganic carbonate (TIC)) as well as lower levels of indicator bacteria, but generated slightly lower biogas volumes (high--53.23 L vs. low--53.19 L) over the course of the study. The results provide important data to improve the performance of small-scale psychrophilic digesters, specifically by reducing loading rates to prevent souring during winter months.
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- James Rosenblum
- a Division of Environmental Health Sciences, College of Public Health , The Ohio State University , 406 Cunz Hall, 1841 Neil Avenue, Columbus , OH 43210-1057 , USA
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Fröschle B, Heiermann M, Lebuhn M, Messelhäusser U, Plöchl M. Hygiene and Sanitation in Biogas Plants. ADVANCES IN BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING/BIOTECHNOLOGY 2015; 151:63-99. [PMID: 26337844 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-21993-6_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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The increasing number of agricultural biogas plants and higher amounts of digestate spread on agricultural land arouse a considerable interest in the hygiene situation of digested products. This chapter reviews the current knowledge on sanitation during anaerobic digestion and the hygienic status of digestate concerning a multitude of pathogens potentially compromising the health of humans, animals and plants. Physical, chemical and biological parameters influencing the efficiency of sanitation in anaerobic digestion are considered. The degree of germ reduction depends particularly on the resistance of the pathogen of concern, the processing conditions, the feedstock composition and the diligence of the operation management. Most scientific studies facing sanitation in biogas plants have provided data ascertaining reduction of pathogens by the biogas process. Some pathogens, however, are able to persist virtually unaffected due to the ability to build resistant permanent forms. As compared to the feedstock, the sanitary status of the digestate is thus improved or in the worst case, the sanitary quality remains almost unchanged. According to this, the spreading of digestate on agricultural area in accordance to current rules and best practice recommendations is considered to impose no additional risk for the health of humans, animals and plants.
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- Bianca Fröschle
- Department for Quality Assurance and Analytics, Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture, Lange Point 6, 85354, Freising, Germany,
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Ruiz-Hernando M, Martín-Díaz J, Labanda J, Mata-Alvarez J, Llorens J, Lucena F, Astals S. Effect of ultrasound, low-temperature thermal and alkali pre-treatments on waste activated sludge rheology, hygienization and methane potential. WATER RESEARCH 2014; 61:119-129. [PMID: 24907480 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2014] [Revised: 05/08/2014] [Accepted: 05/11/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Waste activated sludge is slower to biodegrade under anaerobic conditions than is primary sludge due to the glycan strands present in microbial cell walls. The use of pre-treatments may help to disrupt cell membranes and improve waste activated sludge biodegradability. In the present study, the effect of ultrasound, low-temperature thermal and alkali pre-treatments on the rheology, hygienization and biodegradability of waste activated sludge was evaluated. The optimum condition of each pre-treatment was selected based on rheological criteria (reduction of steady state viscosity) and hygienization levels (reduction of Escherichia coli, somatic coliphages and spores of sulfite-reducing clostridia). The three pre-treatments were able to reduce the viscosity of the sludge, and this reduction was greater with increasing treatment intensity. However, only the alkali and thermal conditioning allowed the hygienization of the sludge, whereas the ultrasonication did not exhibit any notorious effect on microbial indicators populations. The selected optimum conditions were as follows: 27,000 kJ/kg TS for the ultrasound, 80 °C during 15 min for the thermal and 157 g NaOH/kg TS for the alkali. Afterward, the specific methane production was evaluated through biomethane potential tests at the specified optimum conditions. The alkali pre-treatment exhibited the greatest methane production increase (34%) followed by the ultrasonication (13%), whereas the thermal pre-treatment presented a methane potential similar to the untreated sludge. Finally, an assessment of the different treatment scenarios was conducted considering the results together with an energy balance, which revealed that the ultrasound and alkali treatments entailed higher costs.
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- M Ruiz-Hernando
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Barcelona, C/Martí i Franquès 1, 6th Floor, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; The Water Research Institute, University of Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 684, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Barcelona, C/Martí i Franquès 1, 6th Floor, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; The Water Research Institute, University of Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 684, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Barcelona, C/Martí i Franquès 1, 6th Floor, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; The Water Research Institute, University of Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 684, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Barcelona, C/Martí i Franquès 1, 6th Floor, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; The Water Research Institute, University of Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 684, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; The Water Research Institute, University of Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 684, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Barcelona, C/Martí i Franquès 1, 6th Floor, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
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Plöchl M, Heiermann M, Rodemann B, Bandte M, Büttner C. Kinetics of inactivation and dilution effects on the mass balance of fungal phytopathogens in anaerobic digesters. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2014; 133:116-120. [PMID: 24374167 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.11.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2013] [Revised: 11/22/2013] [Accepted: 11/26/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Knowledge of fate and behavior of plant pathogens in the biogas production chain is limited and hampers the estimation and evaluation of the potential phytosanitary risk if digestate is spread on arable land as a fertilizer. Therefore, simulation is an appropriate tool to demonstrate the effects which influence the steady state of pathogen infected plant material in both digesters and digestate. Simple approaches of kinetics of inactivation and mass balances of infected material were carried out considering single-step as well as two-step digestion. The simulation revealed a very fast to fast reduction of infected material after a singular feeding, reaching a cutback to less than 1% of input within 4 days even for D90-values of 68 h. Steady state mass balances below input rate could be calculated with D90-values of less than 2 h at a continuous hourly feeding. At higher D90-values steady state mass balances exceed the input rate but are still clearly below the sum of input mass. Dilution further decreases mass balances to values 10(-5) to 10(-6) Mg m(-3) for first-step digestion and 10(-8) to 10(-9) for second-step.
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- Matthias Plöchl
- BioenergieBeratungBornim GmbH, Max-Eyth-Allee 101, 14469 Potsdam, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam-Bornim, Department Technology Assessment and Substance Cycles, Max-Eyth-Allee 100, 14469 Potsdam, Germany.
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- Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Plant Protection in Field Crops and Grassland, Messeweg 11/12, 38104 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Division Phytomedicine, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, Humboldt University of Berlin, Lentzeallee 55, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Division Phytomedicine, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, Humboldt University of Berlin, Lentzeallee 55, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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Scaglia B, D'Imporzano G, Garuti G, Negri M, Adani F. Sanitation ability of anaerobic digestion performed at different temperature on sewage sludge. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2014; 466-467:888-897. [PMID: 23973551 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.07.114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2013] [Revised: 07/25/2013] [Accepted: 07/28/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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A small amount of ammonia is used in full-scale plants to partially sanitize sewage sludge, thereby allowing successive biological processes to enable the high biological stability of the organic matter. Nevertheless, ammonia and methane are both produced during the anaerobic digestion (AD) of sludge. This paper describes the evaluation of a lab-scale study on the ability of anaerobic process to sanitize sewage sludge and produce biogas, thus avoiding the addition of ammonia to sanitize sludge. According to both previous work and a state of the art full-scale plant, ammonia was added to a mixture of sewage sludge at a rate so that the pH values after stirring were 8.5, 9 and 9.5. This procedure determined an ammonia addition lower than that generally indicated in the literature. The same sludge was also subjected to an AD process for 60 days under psychrophilic, mesophilic and thermophilic conditions. The levels of fecal coliform, Salmonella spp. helmints ova, pH, total N, ammonia fractions and biogas production were measured at different times during each process. The results obtained suggested that sludge sanitation can be achieved using an AD process; however, the addition of a small amount of ammonia was not effective in sludge sanitation because the buffer ability of the sludge reduced the pH and thus caused ammonia toxicity. Mesophilic and thermophilic AD sanitized better than psychrophilic AD did, but the total free ammonia concentration under the thermophilic condition inhibited biogas production. The mesophilic condition, however, allowed for both sludge sanitation and significant biogas production.
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- Barbara Scaglia
- GRUPPO RICICLA, Dipartimento di Science Agrarie e Ambientali: Produzione, Territorio, Agroenergia, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano, Italy.
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Jang HM, Cho HU, Park SK, Ha JH, Park JM. Influence of thermophilic aerobic digestion as a sludge pre-treatment and solids retention time of mesophilic anaerobic digestion on the methane production, sludge digestion and microbial communities in a sequential digestion process. WATER RESEARCH 2014; 48:1-14. [PMID: 23871253 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.06.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2013] [Revised: 06/15/2013] [Accepted: 06/20/2013] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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In this study, the changes in sludge reduction, methane production and microbial community structures in a process involving two-stage thermophilic aerobic digestion (TAD) and mesophilic anaerobic digestion (MAD) under different solid retention times (SRTs) between 10 and 40 days were investigated. The TAD reactor (RTAD) was operated with a 1-day SRT and the MAD reactor (RMAD) was operated at three different SRTs: 39, 19 and 9 days. For a comparison, control MAD (RCONTROL) was operated at three different SRTs of 40, 20 and 10 days. Our results reveal that the sequential TAD-MAD process has about 42% higher methane production rate (MPR) and 15% higher TCOD removal than those of RCONTROL when the SRT decreased from 40 to 20 days. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and real-time PCR results indicate that RMAD maintained a more diverse bacteria and archaea population compared to RCONTROL, due to the application of the biological TAD pre-treatment process. In RTAD, Ureibacillus thermophiles and Bacterium thermus were the major contributors to the increase in soluble organic matter. In contrast, Methanosaeta concilii, a strictly aceticlastic methanogen, showed the highest population during the operation of overall SRTs in RMAD. Interestingly, as the SRT decreased to 20 days, syntrophic VFA oxidizing bacteria, Clostridium ultunense sp., and a hydrogenotrophic methanogen, Methanobacterium beijingense were detected in RMAD and RCONTROL. Meanwhile, the proportion of archaea to total microbe in RMAD and RCONTROL shows highest values of 10.5 and 6.5% at 20-d SRT operation, respectively. Collectively, these results demonstrate that the increased COD removal and methane production at different SRTs in RMAD might be attributed to the increased synergism among microbial species by improving the hydrolysis of the rate limiting step in sludge with the help of the biological TAD pre-treatment.
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- Hyun Min Jang
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, San 31, Hyoja-dong, Pohang 790-784, South Korea
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Guo J, Dong R, Clemens J, Wang W. Thermal modelling of the completely stirred anaerobic reactor treating pig manure at low range of mesophilic conditions. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2013; 127:18-22. [PMID: 23669604 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.04.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2012] [Revised: 02/20/2013] [Accepted: 04/06/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Most of Chinese middle size agricultural biogas plants run at the lower range of mesophilic conditions and low organic loading rates (OLRs) which result in the low biogas production. How to obtain an economically viable operation mode is a challenge for Chinese farm biogas plants. In this study, the performance of completely stirred anaerobic reactors treating pig manure was studied at 20, 28 and 38 °C. A thermal mathematic model was accordingly developed to decide the optimum digesting temperature and OLRs considering ambient temperature of 20, 10 and 0 °C. The regression surface model can fit well on the experimental data when the ambient temperature was around 10-20 °C, at which maximum net energy production (Np,max) can be achieved when the digesters run at OLR of 4.6-5.4 kgODM/m(3) d with temperature of above 26 °C. Co-digestion on the pig farm was suggested in winter in order to increase the Np.
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- Jianbin Guo
- Department of Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China.
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Gao T, Tong Y, Cao M, Li X, Pang X. Evaluation of the inactivation of human Coxsackievirus by thermophilic and mesophilic anaerobic digestion using integrated cell culture and reverse transcription real-time quantitative PCR. WATER RESEARCH 2013; 47:4259-4264. [PMID: 23764576 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.04.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2013] [Revised: 04/19/2013] [Accepted: 04/23/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The virucidal effects of anaerobic digestion were evaluated using human Coxsackievirus as a model for the Enterovirus family. Coxsackievirus was inactivated completely by thermophilic anaerobic digestion (TAD). By 4 h no living and infectious virus remained and no detectable viral RNA was present after 2 days in TAD (7.0 log reduction). Compared to TAD, 2.6 log reduction of viral RNA was achieved by 14 days in mesophilic anaerobic digestion (MAD) (p < 0.0001). Although cytopathogenic effect was not observed in the cultured cells, low levels of intracellular viral RNA were detected after one day of MAD treatment indicating that Coxsackievirus had infected the cells but could not replicate. The combination of thermal and biochemical effects in TAD plays a critical role for viral disinfection. The results of this study indicate that selection of the right configuration of anaerobic digestion for treatment of biowaste may reduce the risk of viral contamination to the environment and water source.
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- Tiejun Gao
- Himark bioGas Inc., AFDP 6004-118 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Astals S, Venegas C, Peces M, Jofre J, Lucena F, Mata-Alvarez J. Balancing hygienization and anaerobic digestion of raw sewage sludge. WATER RESEARCH 2012; 46:6218-27. [PMID: 23063441 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2012.07.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2011] [Revised: 07/17/2012] [Accepted: 07/19/2012] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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The anaerobic digestion of raw sewage sludge was evaluated in terms of process efficiency and sludge hygienization. Four different scenarios were analyzed, i.e. mesophilic anaerobic digestion, thermophilic anaerobic digestion and mesophilic anaerobic digestion followed by a 60 °C or by an 80 °C hygienization treatment. Digester performance (organic matter removal, process stability and biogas yield) and the hygienization efficiency (reduction of Escherichia coli, somatic coliphages and F-specific RNA phages) were the main examined factors. Moreover, a preliminary economical feasibility study of each option was carried out throughout an energy balance (heat and electricity). The obtained results showed that both thermophilic anaerobic digestion and mesophilic anaerobic digestion followed by a hygienization step were able to produce an effluent sludge that fulfills the American and the European legislation for land application. However, higher removal efficiencies of indicators were obtained when a hygienization post-treatment was present. Regarding the energy balance, it should be noted that all scenarios have a significant energy surplus. Particularly, positive heat balances will be obtained for the thermophilic anaerobic digestion and for the mesophilic anaerobic digestion followed by 60 °C hygienization post-treatment if an additional fresh-sludge/digested sludge heat exchanger is installed for energy recovery.
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- S Astals
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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De la Rubia MA, Riau V, Raposo F, Borja R. Thermophilic anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge: focus on the influence of the start-up. A review. Crit Rev Biotechnol 2012; 33:448-60. [DOI: 10.3109/07388551.2012.726962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Ziemba C, Peccia J. Fecal coliform population dynamics associated with the thermophilic stabilization of treated sewage sludge. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 14:2755-61. [DOI: 10.1039/c2em30373f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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