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Piadeh F, Offie I, Behzadian K, Rizzuto JP, Bywater A, Córdoba-Pachón JR, Walker M. A critical review for the impact of anaerobic digestion on the sustainable development goals. J Environ Manage 2024; 349:119458. [PMID: 37918233 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2023] [Revised: 10/15/2023] [Accepted: 10/21/2023] [Indexed: 11/04/2023]
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Anaerobic Digestion (AD) technology emerges as a viable solution for managing municipal organic waste, offering pollution reduction and the generation of biogas and fertilisers. This study reviews the research works for the advancements in AD implementation to effectively impact the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Furthermore, the study critically analyses responsible waste management that contributes to health and safety, elevating quality of life in both rural and urban areas and, finally, creates a map of AD outputs onto all 17 SDGs. Finally, the assessment employs the three sustainability pillars (i.e., economic, environmental, and social perspectives) to examine the direct and indirect links between AD and all 17 UN SDGs. The findings reveal substantial progress, such as poverty reduction through job creation, bolstering economic growth (SDGs 1, 8, 10, 12), enhancing agricultural productivity (SDG 2), advancing renewable energy usage and diminishing reliance on fossil fuels (SDG 7), fostering inclusive education and gender equality (SDGs 4, 5, 9), combating climate change (SDG 13), transforming cities into sustainable and harmonious environments (SDGs 11, 16, 17), and curbing environmental pollution (SDGs 3, 6, 12, 14, 15). Nonetheless, the study highlights the need for further efforts to achieve the SDG targets, particularly in part of liquid and solid fertilisers as the AD outputs.
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- Farzad Piadeh
- School of Computing and Engineering, University of West London, Ealing, London, W5 5RF, UK; School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK
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- School of Computing and Engineering, University of West London, Ealing, London, W5 5RF, UK
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- School of Computing and Engineering, University of West London, Ealing, London, W5 5RF, UK.
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- School of Computing and Engineering, University of West London, Ealing, London, W5 5RF, UK
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- Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 iBJ, UK
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- Department of Engineering University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK
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Thygesen A, Tsapekos P, Alvarado-Morales M, Angelidaki I. Valorization of municipal organic waste into purified lactic acid. Bioresour Technol 2021; 342:125933. [PMID: 34852434 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.125933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2021] [Revised: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 09/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Municipal organic waste (biowaste) consists of food derived starch, protein and sugars, and lignocellulose derived cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin and pectin. Proper management enables nutrient recycling and sustainable production of platform chemicals such as lactic acid (LA). This review gathers the most important information regarding use of biowaste for LA fermentation covering pre-treatment, enzymatic hydrolysis, fermentation and downstream processing to achieve high purity LA. The optimal approach was found to treat the two biowaste fractions separately due to different pre-treatment and enzyme needs for achieving enzymatic hydrolysis and to do continues fermentation to achieve high cell density and high LA productivity up to 12 g/L/h for production of both L and D isomers. The specific productivity was 0.4 to 0.5 h-1 but with recalcitrant biomass, the enzymatic hydrolysis was rate limiting. Novel purification approaches included reactive distillation and emulsion liquid membrane separation yielding purities sufficient for polylactic acid production.
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- Anders Thygesen
- Bioconversion Group, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads 228A, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
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- Bioconversion Group, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads 228A, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
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- Bioconversion Group, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads 228A, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
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- Bioconversion Group, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads 228A, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
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Moretti P, de Oliveira MM, Bayard R, Buffiere P, de Araujo JM, de Castilhos AB, Gourdon R. Mechanical pretreatment of municipal biowaste to produce an aqueous slurry dedicated to anaerobic digestion. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2021; 28:20586-20597. [PMID: 33410064 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-11836-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Accepted: 11/25/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The present study investigated a wet mechanical pretreatment to improve methane production by anaerobic digestion from biowaste material by separating a biodegradable aqueous slurry fraction (ASF) from a more recalcitrant particulate fraction (PF). Four source-sorted municipal biowastes were studied, namely household (HBW), supermarket (SBW), restaurant (RBW), and green biowaste (GBW). The treatment consisted in soaking the waste in water and then pressing the slurry through a grid with 3-mm openings to separate the two fractions. Methane production of ASF and PF obtained from the four biowastes were measured using the BMP protocol and compared to the potential of the respective untreated biowaste. Results were very different for GBW as compared to the other three BWs. With GBW, which was the most lignocellulosic of the BW studied, only 17% of the initial methane potential was recovered in the ASF. The extraction was much better on the other biowastes and increased in the following order: HBW (58%) ≃ RBW (57%) < SBW (67%). The ASF from these biowastes exhibited low total solid contents and high BMPs (416, 408, and 423 NLCH4.g-1vs for HBW, RBW, and SBW respectively). The experimental results obtained in this study therefore showed that wet pressing separation was an efficient pretreatment to improve and facilitate methane production by anaerobic digestion of biowaste such as HBW, RBW, and SBW.
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- Paul Moretti
- INSA Lyon, DEEP Laboratory, Université de Lyon, 20, Avenue A. Einstein, 69621, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
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- INSA Lyon, DEEP Laboratory, Université de Lyon, 20, Avenue A. Einstein, 69621, Villeurbanne Cedex, France.
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- INSA Lyon, DEEP Laboratory, Université de Lyon, 20, Avenue A. Einstein, 69621, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
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- Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina State, CEP 88040-970, Brazil
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- INSA Lyon, DEEP Laboratory, Université de Lyon, 20, Avenue A. Einstein, 69621, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
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Knoop C, Dornack C, Raab T. Effect of drying, composting and subsequent impurity removal by sieving on the properties of digestates from municipal organic waste. Waste Manag 2018; 72:168-177. [PMID: 29191369 DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2017.11.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2017] [Revised: 11/08/2017] [Accepted: 11/09/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The application of organic soil amendments is a common measure to prevent structural degradation of agricultural soils and to maintain and improve long-term soil fertility. Solid residues from anaerobic digestion of municipal organic waste (MOW) are rich in nutrients and organic matter and have a promising potential to be used as soil amendment. However, no study has related amendment properties of MOW digestate of one origin to different treatment procedures. We therefore investigated the impact of drying, composting and sieving on final digestate properties and specifically nutrient availability and heavy metal and carbon elution. Samples were provided by a semi-industrial two-stage biogas plant with dry fermentation of MOW. Results confirm that in comparison to drying, composting of MOW digestates leads to a significant increase of K, P, Mg, Ca, Cd and Cr in the digestates. Sieving of composted digestates showed that heavy metals are not evenly distributed and that heavy metal concentration in the digestate increases with decreasing mesh sizes (highest concentrations in the fractions <1 mm). Although the element concentration is higher in composted batches, the water-extractability of nutrients, heavy metals and carbon is significantly lower from composted over dried digestates. A significant correlation was found between the dissolution of Zn, Ni, Ca and Mg and pH of eluate as well as dissolved organic carbon (DOC) release (R > 0.7, p<0.05). Results confirm that the extent of carbon elution depends on the degradation rate of digestates. DOC may therefore be a good measure to evaluate digestate stability and to decide on treatment measures.
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- Christine Knoop
- Brandenburg University of Technology, Chair of Geopedology and Landscape Development, Siemens-Halske-Ring 8, 03046 Cottbus, Germany.
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- Technische Universität Dresden, Chair of Waste Management, Pratzschwitzer Str. 15, 01796 Pirna, Germany
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- Brandenburg University of Technology, Chair of Geopedology and Landscape Development, Siemens-Halske-Ring 8, 03046 Cottbus, Germany
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Probst M, Fritschi A, Wagner A, Insam H. Biowaste: a Lactobacillus habitat and lactic acid fermentation substrate. Bioresour Technol 2013; 143:647-652. [PMID: 23816359 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2013.06.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2013] [Revised: 06/04/2013] [Accepted: 06/08/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Composite organic waste was assessed for its physical, chemical and microbial suitability to serve as a substrate for the fermentative production of lactic acid. The biowaste studied was highly acidic (pH 4.3) and had high organic carbon content (45%). A clone library identified 90% of the bacterial community were lactic acid bacteria, mainly represented by Lactobacilli (70%). Cultivation using semiselective media identified Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus brevis and their closest relatives as the dominating taxa. PCR-DGGE using general bacterial and lactic acid bacterial specific primers resulted in little heterogeneity of microbial community. These data indicate that biowaste is a preferred habitat of lactic acid bacteria, suggesting that the unsterilized biowaste and its natural flora could be used in a fermentation process for lactic acid production. Such kind of biowaste application could be an alternative for current substrates and provide a modern, efficient and environmental friendly waste treatment technology.
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- Maraike Probst
- Institute of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25d, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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