TY  - THES
T1  - The effect of enzyme additives on the anaerobic digestion of energy crops
A1  - Brulé,Mathieu
Y1  - 2014/12/15
N2  - The mechanisms governing the efficiency of commercial fiber-degrading enzyme additives at improving the anaerobic digestion of energy crops were investigated. Standard batch digestion trials (BMP-assays) were performed using the Hohenheim Biogas Test (HBT) on maize straw, maize corn, and rye silage with different inocula. These BMP-assays showed no significant effect of enzyme additives (including commercial cellulase, xylanase, pectinase, laccase) on the methane production rate. However, batch digestion trials performed on grass silage under suboptimal conditions with inoculum of weak bacterial activity revealed significant increases of methane production up to 40%. In another experiment semi continuous acidogenic fermentation was performed in laboratory digesters with maize silage and water added for dilution at OLR 4 kg VS/(m3 × d), HRT 5 days, with the medium kept in the pH range 5 5.5 through quicklime addition. Enzyme additives at a dosage of 10 g/kg substrate VS significantly increased VFA release (+10%) as well as gas production, including H2 production (+20%). The results show that the efficiency of enzyme additives in anaerobic digestion depends on substrate (fibre length and composition) and process parameters (retention time, loading rate, pH, efficiency of bacterial substrate degradation).
KW  - Biogas
KW  - Energiepflanzen
KW  - Enzym
KW  - Biomasse
KW  - Vergärung
CY  - Hohenheim
PB  - Kommunikations-, Informations- und Medienzentrum der Universität Hohenheim
AD  - Garbenstr. 15, 70593 Stuttgart
UR  - http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/volltexte/2014/1030
ER  -