PMID- 27055364 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20170419 LR - 20221207 IS - 1879-2456 (Electronic) IS - 0956-053X (Linking) VI - 52 DP - 2016 Jun TI - Anaerobic co-digestion of vegetable waste and swine wastewater in high-rate horizontal reactors with fixed bed. PG - 112-21 LID - S0956-053X(16)30105-2 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.wasman.2016.03.021 [doi] AB - Considering the high waste generation that comes from agriculture and livestock farming, as well as the demand for natural gas, it is necessary to develop sustainable technologies which can reduce environmental impact. There is no available literature on the use of high-rate horizontal anaerobic reactors with fixed bed (HARFB) and continuous feed for the co-digestion of vegetable wastes (VW) and swine wastewater (SW). The aim of this work was to evaluate the reactor performance in terms of methane production, organic matter consumption, and removal of total and thermotolerant coliforms under different proportions of SW and VW, and organic loading rates (OLR) of 4.0, 5.2 and 11.0g COD (Ld)(-)(1). The mixture of SW and VW in the proportions of 90:10, 80:20 and 70:30 (SW:VW) with those OLRs provided great buffering capacity, with partial alkalinity reaching 3552mgL(-1), thereby avoiding the inhibition of methane production by volatile fatty acids produced during the fermentation process. Higher proportions of VW and higher OLR improved volumetric methane production with a maximum value of 1.08LCH4 (Ld)(-)(1), organic matter removal rates up to 98% and total and thermotolerant coliform removal rates of 99% were also observed. CI - Copyright (c) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Mazareli, Raissa Cristina da Silva AU - Mazareli RC AD - Post-Graduate Program in Agricultural and Livestock Microbiology, Faculty of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, Univ Estadual Paulista, Campus of Jaboticabal, Department of Rural Engineering, Laboratory of Environmental Sanitation, 14884-900 Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil. FAU - Duda, Rose Maria AU - Duda RM AD - Post-Graduate Program in Agricultural and Livestock Microbiology, Faculty of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, Univ Estadual Paulista, Campus of Jaboticabal, Department of Rural Engineering, Laboratory of Environmental Sanitation, 14884-900 Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil. FAU - Leite, Valderi Duarte AU - Leite VD AD - Chemistry Department, Paraiba State University, Science and Technology Center, Floriano Peixoto - Bodocongo, 58100-000 Campina Grande, PB, Brazil. FAU - Oliveira, Roberto Alves de AU - Oliveira RA AD - Faculty of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, Univ Estadual Paulista, Campus of Jaboticabal, Department of Rural Engineering, Laboratory of Environmental Sanitation, 14884-900 Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil. Electronic address: raoder@fcav.unesp.br. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20160404 PL - United States TA - Waste Manag JT - Waste management (New York, N.Y.) JID - 9884362 RN - 0 (Waste Water) SB - IM MH - Agriculture MH - Anaerobiosis MH - Animals MH - Bioreactors MH - Swine MH - Vegetables MH - Waste Disposal, Fluid/*methods MH - Wastewater OTO - NOTNLM OT - Anaerobic digestion OT - Biogas OT - Coliforms OT - Methane OT - Organic matter removal OT - Plug-flow reactor EDAT- 2016/04/09 06:00 MHDA- 2017/04/20 06:00 CRDT- 2016/04/09 06:00 PHST- 2015/07/09 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/03/11 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2016/03/14 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2016/04/09 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2016/04/09 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/04/20 06:00 [medline] AID - S0956-053X(16)30105-2 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.wasman.2016.03.021 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Waste Manag. 2016 Jun;52:112-21. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2016.03.021. Epub 2016 Apr 4.