TY - JOUR
T1 - Recovery of chemical energy from retentates from cascade membrane filtration of hydrothermal carbonisation effluent
AU - Urbanowska, Agnieszka
AU - Niedzwiecki, Łukasz
AU - Wnukowski, Mateusz
AU - Aragón-Briceño, Christian I.
AU - Kabsch-Korbutowicz, Malgorzata
AU - Baranowski, Marcin
AU - Czerep, Michał
AU - Seruga, Przemyslaw
AU - Pawlak-Kruczek, Halina
AU - Bramer, Eddy
AU - Brem, Gerrit
AU - Pozarlik, Artur K.
N1 - Funding Information:
The Authors would like to thank the European Commission , the National Center for Research and Development (Poland), Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Netherlands) and Swedish Research Council Formas for funding in the frame of the collaborative international consortium (RECOWATDIG) financed under the 2018 Joint call of the WaterWorks2017 ERA-NET Cofund. This ERA-NET is an integral part of the activities developed by the Water JPI. National Centre for Research and Development agreement number WATERWORKS2017/I/RECOWATDIG/01/2019 . Authors would like to thank Butor Group for providing digestate for the research.
Funding Information:
The Authors would like to thank the European Commission, the National Center for Research and Development (Poland), Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Netherlands) and Swedish Research Council Formas for funding in the frame of the collaborative international consortium (RECOWATDIG) financed under the 2018 Joint call of the WaterWorks2017 ERA-NET Cofund. This ERA-NET is an integral part of the activities developed by the Water JPI. National Centre for Research and Development agreement number WATERWORKS2017/I/RECOWATDIG/01/2019. Authors would like to thank Butor Group for providing digestate for the research.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors
PY - 2023/12/1
Y1 - 2023/12/1
N2 - Organic fraction of municipal solid waste is a type of biomass that is attractive due to its marginal cost and suitability for biogas production. The residual product of organic waste digestion is digestate, the high moisture content of which is a problem, even after mechanical dewatering, due to the significant heat requirement for drying. Hydrothermal carbonisation is a process that can potentially offer great benefits by improved mechanical dewatering and valorisation of the digestate into a better-quality solid fuel. However, such valorisation produces liquid by-product effluent rich in organic compounds. Membrane separation could be used to treat such effluent and increase the concentration of the organic compounds while at the same time facilitating the recovery of clean water in the permeate. This work presents the results of the investigation performed using polymeric membranes. The study showed that membrane separation keeps a significant fraction of organics in the retentate. Such concentration significantly increases the biomethane potential of such effluent as well as the energy that could be theoretically used for the generation of process heat using the concentrated retentate in the wet oxidation process.
AB - Organic fraction of municipal solid waste is a type of biomass that is attractive due to its marginal cost and suitability for biogas production. The residual product of organic waste digestion is digestate, the high moisture content of which is a problem, even after mechanical dewatering, due to the significant heat requirement for drying. Hydrothermal carbonisation is a process that can potentially offer great benefits by improved mechanical dewatering and valorisation of the digestate into a better-quality solid fuel. However, such valorisation produces liquid by-product effluent rich in organic compounds. Membrane separation could be used to treat such effluent and increase the concentration of the organic compounds while at the same time facilitating the recovery of clean water in the permeate. This work presents the results of the investigation performed using polymeric membranes. The study showed that membrane separation keeps a significant fraction of organics in the retentate. Such concentration significantly increases the biomethane potential of such effluent as well as the energy that could be theoretically used for the generation of process heat using the concentrated retentate in the wet oxidation process.
U2 - 10.1016/j.energy.2023.128524
DO - 10.1016/j.energy.2023.128524
M3 - Article
SN - 0195-6574
VL - 284
JO - Energy Journal
JF - Energy Journal
M1 - 128524
ER -
