Improved Recovery of Overloaded Anaerobic Batch Reactors by Graphene Oxide
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2024-05-22T05:59:45Z
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2024-05-22T05:59:45Z
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2023-01-25
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Anaerobic digestion reactors may suffer from acidification when overloading occurs. Carbon-based materials are amended to mitigate the souring effects of excessive loading. This study aims to test if graphene oxide (GO) helps overloaded anaerobic reactors recover faster. Batch tests were conducted following a fed-batch strategy at different GO levels (0, 10, and 20 mg GO per g of volatile solid (VS)) and different inoculum substrate ratios (ISRs) of 2, 1, and 0.75 based on VS. While an ISR of 2 was initially applied, the ISR was decreased to 1 and 0.75 in two parallel sets of experiments to simulate overloading conditions at the fourth feeding cycle. Lastly, an ISR of 2 was restored in all assays. First-order model kinetic constants confirmed a significant (p < 0.05) effect by GO from the third feed on. Although the GO-amended assays did not alleviate the acidification effects, during the final phase the kinetic constants reached values similar to or even above the controls (without GO). Moreover, a GO concentration up to 20 mgGO/gVS had no impact on FOS/TAC. Overall, this study broadens the understanding of the design and operation of anaerobic reactors amended with GO
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This research was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement—MSCA-ITN-2018 (EJD Nowelties, grant number 812880)
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application/pdf
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eng
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MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)
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Reproducció digital del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3390/su15032224
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Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, núm. 3, p. 2224
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Articles publicats (ICRA)
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Attribution 4.0 International
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Improved Recovery of Overloaded Anaerobic Batch Reactors by Graphene Oxide
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/812880/EU/Joint PhD Laboratory for New Materials and Inventive Water Treatment Technologies. Harnessing resources effectively through innovation/NOWELTIES
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info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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036743
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peer-reviewed
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2071-1050
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6. Aigua neta i sanejament