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Improving anaerobic conversion of pulp mill secondary sludge to biogas by pretreatment

Author(s) -

Nicholas Wood,

Honghi Tran,

Emma R. Master

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

tappi journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.217

H-Index - 45

ISSN - 0734-1415

DOI - 10.32964/tj9.6.16

Subject(s) - pulp and paper industry , biogas , sulfite , kraft process , paper mill , anaerobic digestion , chemical oxygen demand , kraft paper , waste management , pulp (tooth) , chemistry , pulp mill , anaerobic exercise , wastewater , methane , engineering , organic chemistry , medicine , physiology , effluent , pathology , biology

We examined the effectiveness of thermal, caustic, and sonication pretreatment methods in improving anaerobic conversion to biogas of secondary sludge samples obtained from a kraft mill and a sulfite mill. All three methods improved the anaerobic digestion rate and the biogas yield of the sludge samples. Thermal pretreatment was the most effective, followed closely by caustic pretreatment, and sonication the least. The total biogas productions per unit of chemical oxygen demand of sulfite sludge and kraft sludge samples were respectively 1.2 and 3 times higher with pretreatments than without. Also, the biogas production from the untreated sulfite mill sludge was 4 times higher than that from the untreated kraft mill sludge.

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