Establishment and differential performance of hyperthermophilic microbial community during anaerobic self-degradation of waste activated sludge
Establishment and differential performance of hyperthermophilic microbial community during anaerobic self-degradation of waste activated sludge
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废弃活性污泥厌氧自降解过程中超高温微生物群落的建立及差异表现
DOI:
10.1016/j.envres.2020.110035
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
8.3
通讯作者:
Lyu Yong-Kang
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作者:
Wu Li-Jie;Li Xiao-Xiao;Qin Zhi-Feng;Yang Fan;Zhou Quan;Ren Rui-Peng;Lyu Yong-Kang
Hyperthermophilic anaerobic digestion, especially at 70 °C, has drawn wide attention. In order to acquire the inoculum and digestion characteristics, batch acclimation and continuous operation experiments were conducted under hyperthermophilic (70 °C), thermophilic (55 °C) and mesophilic (35 °C) conditions, respectively. Archaea at each temperature was successfully enriched from the sole-source waste activated sludge (WAS). Hyperthermophilic digestion achieved higher archaea diversity, close to the Shannon index 2.23 for the thermophilic digestion, but the population were not improved, at a 16S rRNA genes 5.99 × 105copies mL−1. Hydrogenotrophic methanogens,MethanospirillumandMethanothermobacter, dominated in the hyperthermophilic digester, accounting for 27.15%, while the primary phylumFirmicuteswas promoted to 36.31%, with the proteolytic genusCoprothermobacterinFirmicutesat 19.50%. Refractory organic fractions were converted more with a higher digestion temperature, which was demonstrated by the fact that the COD/VS increased to 5.8, 5.2 and 4.2 at 70 °C, 55 °C and 35 °C, respectively, at the end of batch acclimation. In addition, the most solubilization for the dominant fraction protein in the WAS occurred at 70 °C as well. Similar hydrolysis ratio, over 10%, and specific hydrolysis rate, around 0.025 g COD (g VSS·d)−1, were achieved at 70 °C and 55 °C. The higher hydrolysis for hyperthermophilic digestion even resulted in a higher methane yield than that for the mesophilic digestion. Nevertheless, contrary to higher hydrolysis, methanogenesis limited hyperthermophilic digestion in WAS degradation, with an ultimate methane yield 71.2 mL g−1VSadded, despite an almost complete VFA conversion through the continuous operation.