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Nutrient recovery from anaerobic co-digestion of Chlorella vulgaris and waste activated sludge
Michael Gordon1, Tyler Radniecki PhD2, Curtis Lajoie PhD2
BioResource Research Interdisciplinary Program1, School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering2
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331
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Biofuels• Renewable energy sourced from biomass
• Ideally carbon neutral
• Policy mandated
• Energy Policy Act 2005, Energy Independence and Security Act 2007
• Renewable Fuel Standard- 38 billion gal by 2022
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com
climatetechwiki.org iipdigital.usembassy.govgreenwoodresources.com
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Algal Biofuels
• Unique advantages of algal biomass
• lipid dense: up to 70% dry wt
• High area productivity (1.25 kg m3/day)
• Doesn’t require arable land
• Water source flexibility
energytrendinsider.com
solixbiosystems.com
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Algal Biofuels
Chisti et al., 2007
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Algal Biofuels
• Large scale production requires substantial inputs of nutrients• “Nutrients”= Nitrogen and Phosphorus
• 45 kg Nitrogen and 4 kg Phosphorus / 1000 kg biomass
• Nutrient inputs economically sustainable?
mnmtraders.weebly.com
Rock Phosphate
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Phosphorus is non-renewable
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Viacarri, 2009
Phosphorus• A rise in biofuel production is
expected to increase competition with industrial agriculture for limited resources
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Anaerobic Digestion
• Proposed as a means of nutrient recovery and recycling• Digestion releases nutrients from biomass into solution for later recovery
• Proven technology at scale
• Enhanced energy yield from CH4 production
• Provides a way to manage large quantities of
residual biomass
Bill Chambers of Stahlbush Island Farms
Stahlbush.com
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Anaerobic Digestion
epa.gov
Backyard-scale digester in Eugene, OR
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Sewage Coarse Filter
Primary Settling
Tank
liquidAerobic Growth
primary solids
WASAnaerobic Digester
Robert Esch
Anaerobic Digestion
• Widely used in wastewater treatment plants to treat
sewage
• Produces a nutrient rich effluent
Settling Tank
slurry
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grow algae
harvest
drying
lipid extraction
algal debris
lipids
glycerol
methyl esters
MeOH + NaOH
anaerobic digester
biogas
effluent: liquidnutrient-rich
effluent: solids
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Research Goal: Quantify recoverable nutrients in liquid phase of anaerobic digester effluents
Questions:
1. How does the digestion of algae compare to WAS?
2. Is co-digestion necessary to maintain digester performance?
3. Does the digestion of lipid-extracted cells differ from the digestion of whole cells?
Hypothesis: digester performance and nutrient recovery will decline as the percentage of
algal substrate increases, and, the digestion of lipid-extracted cells will result in lower
digester performance and nutrient recovery when compared to whole cells
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Lab-scale batch anaerobic digesters
• Constant loading rate of 2070 mg VS L-1
• Constant inoculum to substrate ratio of 5.8:1
• Substrate composition varies
• *1 trial w/ whole cells and 1 w/ lipid-extracted algal
debris
Inoculum: Corvallis WWTP
Buffered H20
Digester Substrate: Algae and or WAS
Head space (N2)
Digester Breakdown
Total Liquid =100 mL
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Lab-scale batch anaerobic digesters
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Monitoring: pH, biogas, CH4, VS reduction
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Nutrient quantification
Influent Hach® vials Total N Total P
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Nutrient quantification
Effluent Centrifuge Pellet Supernatant
Hach: Total N, Total P
Ion Chromatography:
PO3 NO2
Colorimetric: NH4
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• Biogas production provides a measure of digester activity
• Substrate loading standardized by volatile solids (VS) content
• Sig. diff. in biogas yields b/w WAS control and 100% lipid-extracted C. vulgaris (p<0.001)
• respective cumulative biogas yields 657 and 408 mL g-1 VS
• 85 % CH4
Results
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Results• As the % of algae increases, a greater reductions in biogas were observed
• [1-(Treatment biogas(mL) / Control biogas (mL)]*100• Sig. diff. in biogas yields b/w WAS control and 100% lipid-extracted C. vulgaris treatments (p<0.001)
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Results• Recoverable nutrients
are those that end up in the supernatant
• Reductions in biogas correlated with a decline in recoverable nutrients
• Nutrient recovery is more efficient with WAS than with C. vulgaris
Sig. Diff: nitrogen: p<0.02, phosphorus: p<0.001
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Results
• [1-(Treatment nutrients recovered (mg) / Control nutrients recovered (mg)]*100• 100% C. vulgaris treatment sig diff than WAS control, N: p<0.02, P: p<0.001
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• No sig. dif. b/w influent nitrogen in WAS control and 100% C. vulgaris treatment (p=0.8)
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• Sig. dif. b/w influent phosphorus in WAS control and 100% C. vulgaris treatment (p=0.04)
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Results: Co-digestion necessary?
• Ammonia inhibition not observed
• NH4 concentrations well below inhibitory levels (1500 ppm)
• Future experiments: shock loading
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Results: Whole cells vs lipid-extracted cell debris?• Whole cells produced significantly more biogas than lipid-extracted cells (p<0.001)
p<0.001
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Results: Whole cells vs lipid-extracted cell debris?• Nutrient recovery from whole cells was more efficient than lipid-extracted
p<0.001 for both N and P
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Conclusions• Increasing concentrations of C. vulgaris resulted in lower biogas production
• Decrease in biogas production correlated to a decline in recoverable nutrients
• Anaerobic digestion of algal debris as a means of nutrient recovery is possible though not as efficient as nutrient recovery from waste activated sludge
• More data is needed to determine the relationship between % of algal substrate and recoverable nutrients
• More precise analytical tools are needed to quantify nutrients in sludge
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Acknowledgements• Support provided through OSU’s USDA funded Bioenergy Education Project
• Collaborators: Brian Kirby and Xuwen Xiang
• City of Corvallis wastewater treatment plant
• Advisors: Dr. Radniecki and Dr. Lajoie