BIOMETHANATION OF CHEESE WHEY USING ANAEROBIC UPFLOW FIXED-FILM REACTOR

Authors
PATEL P DESAI M MADAMWAR D
Citation
P. Patel et al., BIOMETHANATION OF CHEESE WHEY USING ANAEROBIC UPFLOW FIXED-FILM REACTOR, Journal of fermentation and bioengineering, 79(4), 1995, pp. 398-399
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Food Science & Tenology","Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology
Journal title
Journal of fermentation and bioengineering → ACNP
ISSN journal
0922338X
Volume
79
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
398 - 399
Database
ISI
SICI code
0922-338X(1995)79:4<398:BOCWUA>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
Performance of anaerobic upflow fixed film reactors for biomethanation of high-strength cheese whey using different support material such as charcoal, gravel, brick pieces, PVC pieces and pumice stones at 37 de grees C has been studied. Among them the charcoal fixed film reactor s howed the best performance when operated at 2 d hydraulic retention ti mes (HRT), achieving maximum COD removal of 81% (COD influent=70 g/l) and improved total gas production (6.7 l/d/l digester) with high metha ne content (72%).