Enhanced methane production from wool textile residues by thermal and enzymatic pretreatment
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2013

Methane production from two types of wool textile wastes (TW1 and TW2) was investigated. To improve the digestibility of these textiles, different pretreatments were applied, and comprised thermal treatment (at 120 C for 10 min), enzymatic hydrolysis (using an alkaline endopeptidase at different levels of enzymatic loading, at 55 C for 0, 2, and 8 h), and a combination of these two treatments. Soluble protein concentration and sCOD (soluble chemical oxygen demand) were measured to evaluate the effectivity of the different pretreatment conditions to degrade wool keratin. The sCOD as well as the soluble protein content had increased in both textile samples in comparison to untreated samples, as a response to the different pretreatments indicating breakdown of the wool keratin structure. The combined treatments and the thermal treatments were further evaluated by anaerobic batch digestion assays at 55 C. Combined thermal and enzymatic treatment of TW1 and TW2 resulted in methane productions of 0.43 N m(3)/kg VS and 0.27 N m(3)/kg VS, i.e., 20 and 10 times higher yields, respectively, than that gained from untreated samples. The application of thermal treatment by itself was less effective and resulted in increasing the methane production by 10-fold for TW1 and showing no significant improvement for TW2.

Wool textile

Enzyme

Pretreatment

biodegradation

plant

waste

biogas production

anaerobic-digestion

degradation

Keratin

Anaerobic digestion

chicken feathers

Författare

M. M. Kabir

Högskolan i Borås

Gergely Forgács

Chalmers, Kemi- och bioteknik, Kemisk reaktionsteknik

I. S. Horvath

Högskolan i Borås

Process Biochemistry

1359-5113 (ISSN)

Vol. 48 4 575-580

Ämneskategorier

Biokemi och molekylärbiologi

DOI

10.1016/j.procbio.2013.02.029

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