title: Pretreatment of food waste with high voltage pulse discharge towards methane production enhancement.
abstract: Anaerobic batch tests were performed to investigate the methane production enhancement and solid transformation rates from food waste (FW) by high voltage pulse discharge (HVPD) pretreatment. The total cumulative methane production with HVPD pretreatment was 134% higher than that of the control. The final volatile solids transformation rates of FW with and without HVPD pretreatment were 54.3% and 32.3%, respectively. Comparison study on HVPD pretreatment with acid, alkali and ultrasonic pretreatments showed that the methane production and COD removal rates of FW pretreated with HVPD were more than 100% higher than the control, but only about 50% higher can be obtained with other pretreatments. HVPD pretreatment could be a promising pretreatment method in the application of energy recovery from FW.
authors.affiliation: Shanghai University, School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, 333 Nanchen Road, Shanghai 200444, PR China.
authors.forename: Lianpei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.affiliation: Shanghai University, School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, 333 Nanchen Road, Shanghai 200444, PR China.
authors.forename: Chaonan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: Shanghai University, School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, 333 Nanchen Road, Shanghai 200444, PR China. Electronic address: liujianyong@shu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Jianyong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Shanghai University, School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, 333 Nanchen Road, Shanghai 200444, PR China.
authors.forename: Mingfei
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Shanghai University, School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, 333 Nanchen Road, Shanghai 200444, PR China.
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.affiliation: Shanghai University, School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, 333 Nanchen Road, Shanghai 200444, PR China.
authors.forename: Guangren
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Qian
mesh_terms: D000693:Anaerobiosis; D057919:Biological Oxygen Demand Analysis; D019149:Bioreactors; D004560:Electricity; D004566:Electrodes; D005502:Food; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D008697:Methane / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D009930:Organic Chemicals / Q000032:analysis; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000379:methods*; D012995:Solubility; D013997:Time Factors; D014835:Volatilization; D014866:Waste Products
chemical_list: D009930:Organic Chemicals; D014866:Waste Products; D008697:Methane
keywords: Anaerobic digestion; Food waste; HVPD pretreatment; Methane production