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Methanosarcina thermophila bioaugmentation and its synergy with biochar growth support particles versus polypropylene microplastics in thermophilic food waste anaerobic digestion
Summary
Researchers found that combining biochar with Methanosarcina thermophila bioaugmentation improved methane yields in thermophilic anaerobic digestion of food waste, while polypropylene microplastics used as a comparison growth support showed different performance, highlighting biochar as a promising additive for optimizing digestion systems.
Both biochar supplementation as well as bioaugmentation have been shown in literature to improve the methane yield of anaerobic digestion. In this study, the combination of both are evaluated by growing Methanosarcina thermophila on biochar support particles prior to augmentation of thermophilic food waste anaerobic digestion. Biochar stand alone, bioaugmentation solely, a combination of both added separately or grown together, and utilizing polypropylene (PP) microplastics as growth support instead were all tested when starting up a thermophilic process from mesophilic inoculum. Methanosarcina thermophila and biochar supplementation displayed synergy, with 5% M. thermophila on 1 g/L biochar presenting a 32% increase in specific methane yield over the control. Double the bioaugmentation dosage/concentration was also trialled with a thermophilic inoculum, and 10% M. thermophila grown on 2 g/L biochar displayed the best results with a 20% increase specific methane yield from its control standard.
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