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ArticleScientific reports2020

Synergy of combined free nitrous acid and Fenton technology in enhancing anaerobic digestion of actual sewage waste activated sludge.

Razieh Karimi, Seyed Mostafa Hallaji, Salar Siami, Ali Torabian, Behnoush Aminzadeh, Nicky Eshtiaghi, Soraya Zahedi

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Razieh KarimiGorgan University of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, Golestan, Iran.
Seyed Mostafa HallajiFaculty of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. mostafa.hallaji@monash.edu.
Salar SiamiSchool of Environment, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Ali TorabianSchool of Environment, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Behnoush AminzadehSchool of Environment, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Nicky EshtiaghiSchool of Engineering, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Soraya ZahediCatalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Girona, Spain.
University of Tehran · IRCatalan Institute for Water Research · ESGorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources · IRMonash University · AURMIT University · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, actual swage waste activated sludge in batch reactors was employed to assess the synergistic effect of free nitrous acid and Fenton pre-treatments on enhancing methane production in the anaerobic digestion process. In addition to methane enhancement, the mechanisms driving the enhancement were also investigated via measuring enzymes activity and solubilisation of organic matter. This study revealed that the combined pre-treatments solubilised organic matter significantly more than the bioreactors pre-treated with individual FNA and Fenton. For understanding the influence of pre-treatments on solubilisation of organic matter, soluble protein, soluble polysaccharide and soluble chemical oxygen demand (SCOD) were measured before and after the treatments and it was shown that they respectively increased by 973%, 33% and 353% after the treatments. Protease and cellulase activity, as the key constituents of the microbial community in activated sludge, decreased considerably after the combined pre-treatments 42% and 32% respectively, which resulted in considerable methane enhancement. The results corroborate the synergy of the combined FNA and Fenton pre-treatment in degrading the organic and microbial constituents in waste activated sludge, paving the way for the big-scale implementation of these technologies.

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