Abstract
This study aims to investigate the performance of a two-stage anaerobic digestion system using a hybrid methane reactor to deal with biodegradable municipal solid waste. The reactor allowed both suspended sludge and granular sludge to work together. The feedstock was fermented in one continuous stirred tank at different pH conditions for 5 d. Furthermore, the liquid hydrolysate was diluted and pumped into a methane reactor with different organic loading rates. In the fermentative reactor, raising the pH condition from 4.5 to 6.5 caused a sharp increase in volatile fatty acids concentration, mainly due to the increase in acetate and propionate. The efficiency of the methane reactor was proven by the results of hydrodynamic analysis and biogas production. The relationship between biogas production and operating parameters in this reactor was modeled using a quadratic multivariate regression model. Overall, by maintaining the fermentative reactor at a pH of 6.0–6.5, the methane reactor was able to achieve an organic loading rate of 7.6 g-TS.L−1·d−1 with outstanding biogas quality and yield. In terms of microbiology, the most dominant phyla in the reactor included Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria, Euryarchaeota, Synergistetes, and Chloroflexi. Among them, the species with the highest relative abundance in granular sludge was Firmicutes, while that in suspended sludge was Bacteroidetes.
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