1. Control Strategies for Enhancement of Anaerobic Digestion of Food Waste
- Author
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Qing Feng Gao, Gang Teng, Xiao Song, Yi Qi, Feng Chao Yin, Lei Zhang, Meng Han, and Guo Qing Yang
- Subjects
Engineering ,Waste management ,business.industry ,digestive, oral, and skin physiology ,General Engineering ,Environmental pollution ,Biodegradation ,Raw material ,Methane yield ,Food waste ,Anaerobic digestion ,Methane production ,business ,Anaerobic exercise - Abstract
Food waste management has become an important issue from the environmental, economic, and social points of view due to the fast increase of food waste production and serious environmental pollution. Food waste is considered to be an attractive feedstock of anaerobic digestion and has attracted worldwide attention because of its good biodegradability and high methane production potential. However, in practice, anaerobic digestion system of food waste often shows poor performance and stability, which greatly limited the development of anaerobic digestion process of food waste. In order to obtain high treatment efficiency and satisfactory methane yield, many researchers employed various control strategies for anaerobic digestion of food waste including pretreatment, additive agent addition, two-phase anaerobic digestion, and anaerobic co-digestion. Therefore, this article is intended to review the control strategies for anaerobic digestion process that have been developed for methane production from food waste.
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- 2015