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The effect of augmentation of biochar and hydrochar in anaerobic digestion of a model substrate

The augmentation of biochar produced at 450 and 600–650 °C and hydrochar produced at 250 °C has been investigated using biochemical methane potential experiments of cellulose. The feedstocks used for the char production included the lignocellulosic (oak wood), macroalgae (Fucus serratus) and aquatic...

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Autores principales: Quintana-Najera, Jessica, Blacker, A. John, Fletcher, Louise A., Ross, Andrew B.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Applied Science ;, Elsevier Science Pub. Co 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7812375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33302012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2020.124494
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Ross, Andrew B.
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description The augmentation of biochar produced at 450 and 600–650 °C and hydrochar produced at 250 °C has been investigated using biochemical methane potential experiments of cellulose. The feedstocks used for the char production included the lignocellulosic (oak wood), macroalgae (Fucus serratus) and aquatic plant (water hyacinth). Biomethane production was improved with the addition of lower-temperature biochars from oak wood (285 mL CH(4)/g VS) and water hyacinth (294 mL CH(4)/g VS), corresponding to 7 and 11% more than the control. The addition of these two biochars increased the methane production rate of 2.4 and 2.3 times the control, respectively. Higher temperature biochars showed no difference. Conversely, all hydrochars and macroalgae biochars augmentation reduced methane generation by 57–86 %. The chemical and structural composition of each of the chars differed significantly. Surface oxygen functionality appears to be the most important property of the biochars that improved digestion performance.
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spelling pubmed-78123752021-02-01 The effect of augmentation of biochar and hydrochar in anaerobic digestion of a model substrate Quintana-Najera, Jessica Blacker, A. John Fletcher, Louise A. Ross, Andrew B. Bioresour Technol Article The augmentation of biochar produced at 450 and 600–650 °C and hydrochar produced at 250 °C has been investigated using biochemical methane potential experiments of cellulose. The feedstocks used for the char production included the lignocellulosic (oak wood), macroalgae (Fucus serratus) and aquatic plant (water hyacinth). Biomethane production was improved with the addition of lower-temperature biochars from oak wood (285 mL CH(4)/g VS) and water hyacinth (294 mL CH(4)/g VS), corresponding to 7 and 11% more than the control. The addition of these two biochars increased the methane production rate of 2.4 and 2.3 times the control, respectively. Higher temperature biochars showed no difference. Conversely, all hydrochars and macroalgae biochars augmentation reduced methane generation by 57–86 %. The chemical and structural composition of each of the chars differed significantly. Surface oxygen functionality appears to be the most important property of the biochars that improved digestion performance. Elsevier Applied Science ;, Elsevier Science Pub. Co 2021-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7812375/ /pubmed/33302012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2020.124494 Text en © 2020 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short The effect of augmentation of biochar and hydrochar in anaerobic digestion of a model substrate
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7812375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33302012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2020.124494
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