title: Biochemical methane potential of fractions of organic matter extracted from a municipal solid waste leachate: Impact of their hydrophobic character.
abstract: Many data on anaerobic digestion (AD) and co-digestion of municipal solid waste leachate (MSWL) are already available in literature. They mainly deal with its performances to decrease the chemical oxygen demand (COD) of MSWL and no information is given on the impact of the specific characteristics of the dissolved organic matter (DOM) in leachate on these performances. DOM in leachate evolves towards more aromatic and hydrophobic compounds during landfilling with increasing specific ultra-violet absorbance index (SUVA) and hydrophobic character. However, according to the humification stages, this DOM would not present the same aptitude for AD. This research thus focused on (i) optimizing a biochemical methane potential (BMP) test applied to MSWL by using the Taguchi method and (ii) evaluating the impact of the hydrophobic character of the DOM in leachate on the BMP of MSWL to finally define the humification degree more suitable for AD. Hydrophobic-like (HPO∗) and transphilic-like (TPH∗) compounds extracted from leachate by a fractionation protocol were tested because of their high content in MSWL during acetogenesis and methanogenesis steps. After 275days of AD, the content in hydrophobic compounds and the SUVA indexes increased in the digestates. Moreover, even if the biogas and methane productions were not significantly different during the whole tests (4072±350mLgDOC-1and 2370±95mLgDOC-1respectively), the volume of biogas produced directly correlated with the TPH∗fraction content in the initial digestates. On the contrary, the methane percentage in biogas was anti-correlated with the hydrophilic-like compounds content. The hydrophobic-like molecules seem thus not to be directly involved in the methanogenic step, however they promote the increase of the methane percent in the biogas.
authors.affiliation: Research Group on Water Soil and Environment (GRESE), University of Limoges, ENSIL, ESTER Technopole, 16 rue Atlantis, 87068 Limoges Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Camille
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Baccot
authors.affiliation: Research Group on Water Soil and Environment (GRESE), University of Limoges, ENSIL, ESTER Technopole, 16 rue Atlantis, 87068 Limoges Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Virginie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pallier
authors.affiliation: Research Group on Water Soil and Environment (GRESE), University of Limoges, ENSIL, ESTER Technopole, 16 rue Atlantis, 87068 Limoges Cedex, France. Electronic address: feuillade@ensil.unilim.fr.
authors.forename: Geneviève
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Feuillade-Cathalifaud
mesh_terms: D057919:Biological Oxygen Demand Analysis; D019149:Bioreactors; D057927:Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions; D008697:Methane / Q000032:analysis*; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000379:methods*; D062611:Solid Waste; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D062611:Solid Waste; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; D008697:Methane
keywords: BMP; Experimental design; Hydrophobic character; Municipal solid waste leachate; Organic matter