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Effects of ammonia on anaerobic digestion of food waste: Process performance and microbial community |
ZHANG Hong, LI Lei, PENG Yun, YANG Ping-jin, HUANG Qian, PENG Xu-ya, WANG Xiao-ming |
Key Laboratory of Three Gorges Reservoir Region's Eco-Environment, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China |
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Abstract A series of batch experiments were conducted under ammonia-N stress conditions to investigate the effects of ammonium (TAN) on performance and microbial community during the anaerobic digestion (AD) process of food waste. At different TAN levels, the response of AD process parameters and the dynamics of microbial communities were investigated by physico-chemical analysis along with Miseq high-throughput sequencing analysis. Results showed that, with the increase of TAN, the methane recovery rate decreased from (96.53±2.66)% to (63.13±0.73)% while the digestion time increased from 435h to 915h. After continuous acclimation, the gas production performance was completely recovered in the test group with TAN concentration of 3000mg/L. However, the gas production in the group with high ammonia concentration (36000mg/L) was still inhibited and did not recovered by acclimation. Compared with acetate metabolism, the metabolism of long-chain volatile fatty acids (LCVFAs) was more tolerant to ammonia level (6000mg/L), but difficult to recover by acclimation if inhibited. At the microbial communities, the high abundance of hydrolytic and fermentative bacteria with redundant function ensured adequate hydrolysis and acidification at different TAN concentrations. Ammonia-sensitive Methanosaeta and Methanospirillum could also be replaced by ammonia-resistant Methanosarcina and Methanoculleus via acclimation, and thus ensure methanogenesis. In comparison, acetogenic bacteria featured with highly specialized function, and only the C4~C18 and propionate degraded Syntrophomonas and Pelotomaculum were detected. Under continuous high ammonia exposure, the abundance of the former bacteria recovered to a certain degree, while the latter could not be acclimatized. Eventually, the AD system was observed to accumulate LCVFAs (mainly propionate), and the gas production process was deteriorated. Therefore, the key contributor to ammonia inhibition turned out to be the syntrophic degradation of LCVFAs.
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Received: 10 January 2020
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