Development of high efficiency biogas production system on persistent organic waste by photo catalytic treatment.

2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22880007
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Boundary agriculture
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: YANG Yingnan 筑波大学, 生命環境系, 准教授 (50561007)
• Project Period (FY): 2010 – 2011
• Keywords: 光触媒 / 難分解性 / 有機性廃棄物 / 水素・メタン発酵 / バイオガス生産システム

Research Abstract

This research is aimed at development of high efficiency biogas production system on persistent organic waste by photocatalytic treatment.
The activated sludge as the model persistent organic waste was treated under the optimum photocatalatic conditions, very outstanding decomposition rate which more than 50% was obtained in 8 hours. Furthermore, as a result of performing hydrogen fermentation by using the processed activated sludge as fermentation materials, compared with the case which does not carry out photocatalytic treatment, it became clear that the rate of output of hydrogen increased 17 times.
Combining the treatment of persistent organic waste by photocatalytic technology and bioremediation, a synergistic effect on development of high efficiency and low environmental load bioenergy production system could be feasible and demonstrating a large social impact.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Treatment of ammonium-rich swine waste in modified porphyritic andesite fixed-bed anaerobic bioreactor (2012)
  • Author(s): Wang, Q., Yang, Y. N., Li D., Feng, C., Zhang, Z. Y
  • Journal Title: Bioresource Technology Volume: 111 Pages: 70-75
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Hydrogen production by anaerobic co-digestion of rice straw and sewage sludge (2012)
  • Author(s): Kim, M., Yang, Y. N., Morikawa, M., Wang, Q., Lee, M. V., Lee, D. Y., Feng, C., Zhou, Y., Zhang, Z. Y.
  • Journal Title: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Volume: 37 Pages: 3142-3139
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Highly-efficient Anaerobic Digestion of Refractory Organic Waste Using Subcritical Water Hydrolysis as Pretreatment Process (2012)
  • Author(s): Miyashiro, T., Wang, Q., Yang, Y. N., Shimizu, K., Sugiura, N., Matsui, S
  • Journal Title: Japanese Journal of Water Treatment Biology Volume: 48(1) Pages: 23-27
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Enhancement on biodegradation and anaerobic digestion efficiency of activated sludge using a dual irradiation process (2011)
  • Author(s): Yang, Y. N., Tsukahara, K., Yang, R. Y., Zhang, Z. Y., Sawayama, S.
  • Journal Title: Bioresource Technology Volume: 102 Pages: 10767-10771
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Development of a High-Efficiency Methane Fermentation Process for Hardly Degradable Rice Straw (2011)
  • Author(s): Yang, Y. N., Zhang, Z. Y., Zhao, R., Sugiura, N.
  • Journal Title: Journal of integrated field science Volume: 8 Pages: 61-71
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Study on a fixed zeolite bioreactor for anaerobic digestion of ammonium-rich swine wastes (2011)
  • Author(s): Wang, Q., Yang, Y. N., Yu, C., Huang, H., Kim, M., Feng, C., Zhang, Z. Y
  • Journal Title: Bioresource Technology Volume: 102 Pages: 7064-7068
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Two-stage Anaerobic Co-digestion of Sewage Sludge and Rice Straw for the Sequential Production of Hydrogen and Methane (2012)
  • Author(s): Kim, M., Matsuo, S., Yang, Y. N., Zhang, Z. Y
  • Organizer: The 4th Energy and Environmental Workshop National Taiwan University
  • Place of Presentation: Taiwan
  • Year and Date: 20120329-30
• [Presentation] Waste Activated Sludge Pretreatment By TiO2 Photocatalysis (2012)
  • Author(s): Liu, C., Yang, Y. N., Wang, Q., Zhu, Q., Zhao, Y., Chen, J., Zhang, Z. Y
  • Organizer: The 4th Energy and Environmental Workshop, National Taiwan University
  • Place of Presentation: Taiwan
  • Year and Date: 20120329-30
• [Presentation] Application of Ca-modified porphyritic andesite for ammonium removal in anaerobic digestion process (2011)
  • Author(s): Wang, Q., Yang, Y. N., Li, D. W., Feng, C., Zhang, Z. Y
  • Organizer: International Symposium on Agriculture Education for Sustainable Development
  • Place of Presentation: Tsukuba, Japan
  • Year and Date: 20111107-11
• [Presentation] Study on Enhancing Hydrolysis of Organic Waste by TiO_2 Photocatalysis (2011)
  • Author(s): Lu, W., Li, D., Yang, Y. N
  • Organizer: International Symposium on Agriculture Education for Sustainable Development
  • Place of Presentation: Tsukuba, Japan
  • Year and Date: 20111107-11
• [Presentation] Two-phase hydrogen and methane production by co-digestion of rice straw and sewage sludge under thermophilic condition (2011)
  • Author(s): Kim, M., Yang, Y. N., Matsuo, S., Zhang, Z.Y
  • Organizer: International Symposium on Agriculture Education for Sustainable Development, Tsukuba
  • Place of Presentation: Tsukuba, Japan
  • Year and Date: 20111107-11
• [Presentation] Enhancing hydrolysis of macromolecular components of waste activated sludge by UV-TiO_2 photocatalysis (2011)
  • Author(s): Li, D.W., Yang, Y.N., Jiang, W.Z., Zhang, Z.Y
  • Organizer: 4th Japan-China Graduate Student Forum-Life, Environment and Resource
  • Place of Presentation: Beijing, China
  • Year and Date: 20110924-27
• [Presentation] A semi-continue photocatalysis process using titanium dioxide nanoparticles for degradation of raw activated sludge (2011)
  • Author(s): Liu, C.G., Yang, Y. N., Li, D.W., Zhao, Y. X., Wang, Q., Chen, J., Zhang, Z. Y
  • Organizer: 4th Japan-China Graduate Student Forum-Life, Environment and Resource
  • Place of Presentation: Beijing, China
  • Year and Date: 20110924-27
• [Presentation] High Efficiency Bioenergy Conversion and Useful Material Production (2011)
  • Author(s): Yang, Y. N., Zhang, Z. Y., Sugiura, N
  • Organizer: Workshop of Environmental Sciences of Academic Communication of University Tsukuba and Zhengzhou University in 2011
  • Place of Presentation: Zhengzhou, China
  • Year and Date: 20110728-29
• [Presentation] Comparison of Methanogenic Carrier Materials and Immobilization Method in Anaerobic Bioreactors (2011)
  • Author(s): Yang, Y. N., Zhang, Z. Y., Sugiura, N
  • Organizer: Asia Congress on Biotechnology 2011
  • Place of Presentation: Shanghai, China
  • Year and Date: 20110511-15