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2022
Characteristics and anaerobic co-digestion of press water from wood fuel preparation and digested sewage sludge
Characteristics and anaerobic co-digestion of press water from wood fuel preparation and digested sewage sludge
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Technical drying of harvested wood fuels is heat and energy consuming, while natural pre-drying in the forest, e.g., in stacks or storage piles, is accompanied by energy losses through natural degradation processes. Dewatering of energy wood by mechanical pressing is an innovative method to reduce the moisture content prior to thermal drying while producing press waters (PW, also referred to as wood juice) as a by-product. To date, the characteristics and utilization potentials of PW are largely unknown. In this study, three different spruce- and poplar-based PW were analyzed for their characteristics such as dry matter (DM), organic dry matter (oDM) concentration, pH-value, element concentration or chemical compounds. Additionally, they were used for anaerobic digestion (AD) experiments with digested sewage sludge (DSS) serving as inoculum. The fresh matter-based DM concentrations of the PW were between 0.4 and 3.2%, while oDM concentrations were between 87 and 89%DM. The spruce-based PW were characterized by lower pH-values of approx. 4.4, while the poplar-based PW was measured at pH 8. In the AD experiments, DSS alone (blank variant) achieved a specific methane yield of 95 ± 26 mL/goDM, while the mixture of spruce-based PW and DSS achieved up to 160 ± 12 mL/goDM, respectively. With further research, PW from wood fuel preparation offer the potential to be a suitable co-substrate or supplement for AD processes.
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Fermentation, 8 (2022), 1, 37.
https://doi.org/10.3390/fermentation8010037.
ISSN: 2311-5637
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@article{Sailer2022,
url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/16849},
doi = {10.3390/fermentation8010037},
author = {Sailer, Gregor and Empl, Florian and Kuptz, Daniel et al.},
title = {Characteristics and Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Press Water from Wood Fuel Preparation and Digested Sewage Sludge},
journal = {Fermentation},
year = {2022},
}