Abstract

The main aim of this work was to intensify conventional composting of a mixture of sewage sludge and solid food wastes by a one-stage thermophilic bioconversion of these wastes into an organic fertilizer. An intensive process was carried out in a closed system, with or without addition of a starter culture of Bacillus thermoamylovorans. The most effective thermophilic bioconversion of the mixture of food waste and sewage sludge, with addition of starter culture, was when the pH was buffered with calcium carbonate, or the pH drop in the material was prevented by preliminary removal of sulphides from sewage sludge by hydrogen peroxide.

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