PMID- 25776915 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160127 LR - 20150430 IS - 1879-2448 (Electronic) IS - 0043-1354 (Linking) VI - 76 DP - 2015 Jun 1 TI - High rate manure supernatant digestion. PG - 1-9 LID - S0043-1354(15)00124-4 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.watres.2015.02.051 [doi] AB - The study shows that high rate anaerobic digestion may be an efficient way to obtain sustainable energy recovery from slurries such as pig manure. High process capacity and robustness to 5% daily load increases are observed in the 370 mL sludge bed AD reactors investigated. The supernatant from partly settled, stored pig manure was fed at rates giving hydraulic retention times, HRT, gradually decreased from 42 to 1.7 h imposing a maximum organic load of 400 g COD L(-1) reactor d(-1). The reactors reached a biogas production rate of 97 g COD L(-1) reactor d(-1) at the highest load at which process stress signs were apparent. The yield was approximately 0.47 g COD methane g(-1) CODT feed at HRT above 17 h, gradually decreasing to 0.24 at the lowest HRT (0.166 NL CH4 g(-1) CODT feed decreasing to 0.086). Reactor pH was innately stable at 8.0 +/- 0.1 at all HRTs with alkalinity between 9 and 11 g L(-1). The first stress symptom occurred as reduced methane yield when HRT dropped below 17 h. When HRT dropped below 4 h the propionate removal stopped. The yield from acetate removal was constant at 0.17 g COD acetate removed per g CODT substrate. This robust methanogenesis implies that pig manure supernatant, and probably other similar slurries, can be digested for methane production in compact and effective sludge bed reactors. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis indicated a relatively fast adaptation of the microbial communities to manure and implies that non-adapted granular sludge can be used to start such sludge bed bioreactors. CI - Copyright (c) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved. FAU - Bergland, Wenche Hennie AU - Bergland WH AD - Telemark University College, Kjolnes Ring 56, 3918 Porsgrunn, Norway. Electronic address: wenche.bergland@hit.no. FAU - Dinamarca, Carlos AU - Dinamarca C AD - Telemark University College, Kjolnes Ring 56, 3918 Porsgrunn, Norway. FAU - Toradzadegan, Mehrdad AU - Toradzadegan M AD - Telemark University College, Kjolnes Ring 56, 3918 Porsgrunn, Norway. FAU - Nordgard, Anna Synnove Rostad AU - Nordgard AS AD - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Biotechnology, Sem Saelands vei 6/8, 7491 Trondheim, Norway. FAU - Bakke, Ingrid AU - Bakke I AD - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Biotechnology, Sem Saelands vei 6/8, 7491 Trondheim, Norway. FAU - Bakke, Rune AU - Bakke R AD - Telemark University College, Kjolnes Ring 56, 3918 Porsgrunn, Norway. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20150304 PL - England TA - Water Res JT - Water research JID - 0105072 RN - 0 (Biofuels) RN - 0 (Manure) RN - 0 (Sewage) RN - OP0UW79H66 (Methane) SB - IM MH - Anaerobiosis MH - Animals MH - Biofuels/microbiology MH - Biological Oxygen Demand Analysis MH - *Bioreactors MH - Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis MH - Manure/*microbiology MH - Methane/metabolism MH - Sewage/*chemistry MH - Swine MH - Waste Disposal, Fluid/*methods OTO - NOTNLM OT - AD stability OT - Energy from slurries OT - High organic load OT - Microbial communities OT - Pig manure supernatant EDAT- 2015/03/18 06:00 MHDA- 2016/01/28 06:00 CRDT- 2015/03/18 06:00 PHST- 2014/12/03 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/02/18 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2015/02/22 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/03/18 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/03/18 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/01/28 06:00 [medline] AID - S0043-1354(15)00124-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.watres.2015.02.051 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Water Res. 2015 Jun 1;76:1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2015.02.051. Epub 2015 Mar 4.