Thermophilic anaerobic digestion as suitable bioprocess producing organic and chemical renewable fertilizers : A full-scale approach

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Veröffentlicht in:Waste management (New York, N.Y.). - 1999. - 124(2021) vom: 01. Apr., Seite 356-367
1. Verfasser: Pigoli, Ambrogio (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Zilio, Massimo, Tambone, Fulvia, Mazzini, Stefania, Schepis, Micol, Meers, Erik, Schoumans, Oscar, Giordano, Andrea, Adani, Fabrizio
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2021
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Schlagworte:Journal Article Ammonium sulphate Digestate Fertilizer properties High Solid Anaerobic Digestion Sewage sludge Fertilizers Sewage Soil
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This work reports a full-scale study in which organic wastes were transformed by high-solid thermophilic anaerobic digestion (HSAD), into N fertilizers and organic fertilizers, i.e. digestate. The produced fertilizers were characterized over 42 months and their properties were discussed in comparisons with literature data. HSAD coupled with N stripping technology led to ammonia sulphate production having high N concentration (74 ± 2 g kg-1 wet weight), neutral pH (6.8 ± 1.3) and low traces of other elements. Digestate showed both higher carbon (C) content (314 ± 30 g kg-1 on dry matter (DM) and biological stability than green composts, indicating good amendment properties. Digestate was also interesting for its N (77 ± 3.7 g kg-1 dry matter - DM) content, half of it in the ammonia form, and P content (28 ± 4.1 g kg-1 DM) that was 43% readily available as soluble P-orthophosphate. K content was low (6.5 ± 1.3 g kg-1 DM), indicating poor fertilizing ability of digestate for this element. All organic pollutants investigated were much lower than the limits required for agricultural use and levels of some of them were lower than the content revealed for other organic matrices such as agricultural and energy crop digestates and compost. Emerging pollutants (i.e., pharmaceuticals) were tested as markers and they were found to be below the detection limit (<0.01 mg kg-1 DM) indicating very low content. The results obtained showed that HSAD coupled with N stripping allowed transforming sewage sludge into fertilizers and soil improvers exploitable in agriculture
Beschreibung:Date Completed 16.03.2021
Date Revised 16.03.2021
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1879-2456
DOI:10.1016/j.wasman.2021.02.028