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Research Article

Evaluation of biogas production and pollutant removal efficiency of two-phase anaerobic digestion treating slaughterhouse effluent

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Pages 873-881 | Received 31 Aug 2022, Accepted 24 Feb 2023, Published online: 31 Mar 2023
 

Abstract

Treatment of slaughterhouse and other agro-processing industry effluent has become important due to continuous global population growth and meat demand, particularly in developing countries, for sustainable biowaste management as well as value additions such as biofuel. Therefore, the objective of the study was to evaluate the performance of two-phase anaerobic digestion of slaughterhouse wastewater in terms of biogas production, methane yield, and removal efficiencies of organic matter, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus. Two consecutively connected 40 L galvanized metal anaerobic batch bioreactors were used to conduct the experiment. The total phosphorus removal efficiencies of hydrolytic-acidogenic reactor and methanogenic reactor were 13.34% and 16.58%, respectively. Total chemical oxygen demand, soluble chemical oxygen demand, biological oxygen demand, total dissolved solids, total solids, total suspended solids, volatile solids, and turbidity had overall removal efficiencies of 82.87, 88.53, 93.32, 75.35, 95.55, 98.95, 97.42 and 98.06%, respectively. Biogas production of 189.45 mL/day with methane and carbon dioxide compositions of 67.69% and 29.9%, respectively, was also achieved. It was concluded that the two-phase anaerobic digestion of slaughterhouse wastewater shows substantial organic matter removal efficiencies and biogas production.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the Center for Environmental Science for providing working space and laboratory facilities.

Author contributions

Both authors made necessary professional contributions in this research work. DTB designed the study, conducted the experiments, collected, analyzed, and interpreted the data, and wrote the draft manuscript. SLA guided the research, supervised the overall study design, edited the manuscript critically, and provided comments and suggestions. Both authors read, reviewed, and approved the final manuscript.

Availability of data and materials

All the data and materials used for this study are included in the article.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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