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Optimizing volatile fatty acids production from fish canning wastewater: the ro...
Casero-Díaz, Tamara; Castro-Barros, Celia; Carballa, Marta; Mauricio-Iglesias, Miguel; Duarte, Maria SaloméThe transition to a circular economy requires innovative strategies for wastewater valorization, particularly in water-intensive sectors, such as fish canning. Anaerobic fermentation of fish canning wastewater to produce volatile fatty acids (VFAs) is a promising alternative to reach this goal. This study evaluated the impact of two bioreactor feeding strategies (continuous (UASB) and sequential batch (SBR)) an...
Principles, advances, and perspectives of anaerobic digestion of lipids
Holohan, B. Conall; Duarte, Maria Salomé; Szabo-Corbacho, Alejandra; Cavaleiro, A. J.; Salvador, Andreia F.; Pereira, M. A.; Ziels, Ryan M.Several problems associated with the presence of lipids in wastewater treatment plants are usually overcome by removing them ahead of the biological treatment. However, because of their high energy content, waste lipids are interesting yet challenging pollutants in anaerobic wastewater treatment and codigestion processes. The maximal amount of waste lipids that can be sustainably accommodated, and effectively c...
ICBM-4 - 4th International Conference on Biogas Microbiology (Book of Abstracts)
Alves, M. M.; Carballa, Marta; Pereira, M. A.; Cavaleiro, A. J.; Alves, Joana I.; Salvador, Andreia Filipa FerreiraBiogas microbiology involves microorganisms with diverse physiological traits, establishing interactions and networks in microbial communities. It is therefore a complex and broad topic. Biogas generation occurs in natural and engineered man-made systems. Knowledge on physiology and diversity of these microorganisms is pivotal to better control the biogas generation in those systems impacting both renewable ene...
Towards a standardization of biomethane potential tests
Holliger, Christof; Alves, M. M.; Andrade, Diana; Angelidaki, Irini; Astals, Sergi; Baier, Urs; Bougrier, Claire; Buffière, Pierre; Carballa, MartaProduction of biogas from different organic materials is a most interesting source of renewable energy. The biomethane potential (BMP) of these materials has to be determined to get insight in design parameters for anaerobic digesters. Although several norms and guidelines for BMP tests exist, inter-laboratory tests regularly still show high variability of BMPs for the same substrate. A workshop was held in Jun...