Enhancing Renewable Energy (biogas/bio-hydrogen) Production from Organic Wastes - Towards a more Sustainable and Climate-neutral Approach

全球能源需求不断增加，化石燃料对温室气体排放和气候变化的负面环境影响，导致采取了可持续和可再生能源生产的政策和战略。因此，有必要研究和开发所有潜在的可持续能源生产途径，包括从生物质生产能源，寻找新的替代生物质来源或能源生产途径。生物制氢和生物甲烷生产是两种有前途的替代能源，已被包括加拿大在内的许多国家列入优先能源生产选项清单。有机废物可用作生物质原料，这提供了一种低成本的原料和一种可持续的固体废物管理方法，以转移填埋的有机废物。该研究的长期目标是“在可持续发展和气候中性方法的背景下生产可再生能源/生物能源”。有三个实验室项目。这些是：项目1，在连续两阶段厌氧消化过程中通过新型后水解方法提高家禽粪便的沼气生产;项目2，评估城市固体废物有机部分（OFMSW）生物氢/生物甲烷生产的可行性和优化;项目3，通过与OFMSW共发酵提高家禽粪便的生物氢生产。 研究影响：从生物质中生产清洁和可再生能源特别令人感兴趣，而且越来越感兴趣。在当前形势下，世界范围内对氢的生产和储存的研究正在加紧进行。在过去十年中，能源作物的生物能源生产取得了重大发展;然而，能源作物和粮食作物的种植之间存在冲突和竞争。这项研究将有助于评估扩大生物质来源范围的可能性，包括PM和OFMSW作为生物能源生产的原料，通过具有成本效益的氨汽提，单阶段和两阶段发酵过程，组合黑暗/光发酵，组合黑暗发酵/甲烷生产，以及OFMSW和PM的共发酵来减轻技术和实践挑战。这将有助于在全球肉类生产行业和农业废物中实施反倾销和发酵工艺，从而打开一个数十亿美元的市场。研究结果还将有助于加拿大通过采用可持续和可再生能源的生产，在未来达到气候中立状态。除了对加拿大的经济和环境效益外，它还将为农业部门提供一种管理选择。研究结果将对提高该领域的知识水平做出重大贡献，并为培训3 HQP提供机会。

The increasing global energy demand and negative environmental effects of fossil on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change has led to the adoption of policies and strategies towards sustainable and renewable energy production. Thus, there is a need for research and development on all potential sustainable energy production pathways including energy production from biomass, either in search of new alternative sources of biomass or energy production routes. Bio-hydrogen and Bio-methane production are two promising alternatives, which have been included in the list prioritized energy production options in many countries including Canada. Organic waste could be used as the biomass feedstock, which offers a low-cost feedstock and a sustainable solid waste management approach to divert organic waste from landfilling. The long-term objective of the research is the "Production of Renewable Energy/Bioenergy in the context of Sustainable Development and Climate-Neutral Approach". There are three laboratory projects included. These are: Project 1, enhanced biogas production from poultry manure by a novel post-hydrolysis approach in a continuous two-stage anaerobic digestion process; Project 2, assessing the feasibility and optimization of bio-hydrogen/bio-methane production from organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW); and Project 3, enhancing bio-hydrogen production from poultry manure using co-fermentation with OFMSW. Research Impact: Production of clean and renewable energy from biomass is of particular and increasing interest. Under the current circumstance, worldwide ongoing research on hydrogen generation and storage is intensive. There has been significant development for bioenergy production from energy crops over the last decade; however, there is a conflict and competition between cultivation for energy crops and food crops. This research will help to assess the possibility of widening the range of the biomass sources to include PM and OFMSW as feedstock for bioenergy production by mitigating the technical and practical challenges through cost-effective stripping of ammonia, single- and two- stage fermentation process, combined dark/photo fermentation, combined dark-fermentation/methane production, and co-fermentation of OFMSW and PM. This would help to implement AD and fermentation processes in the meat production industry and agricultural wastes worldwide, opening a multi-billion-dollar market. The results will also help Canada to reach a climate-neutral state in the future by adopting production of sustainable and renewable energy. In addition to economic and environmental benefits to Canada, it will offer a management option to the agricultural sector. The results will have significant contribution to advance the knowledge in the field and provide opportunity to train a 3HQPs.