Study on the Kitchen Residues and Cattle Manure Anaerobic Co-Digestion in Bench-Scale Laboratory Test

Abstract

With kitchen residues and cattle manure as raw materials, in temperature (36±1°C) adopt the way of the batch type fermented for kitchen residues and cattle manure, we will have a comparative research between independent anaerobic fermentation and mixed anaerobic fermentation. The results of the experiments show that the gas production and COD removal rate by the anaerobic fermentation of cattle manure independent would be superior to kitchen residues, the optimal effect is the anaerobic fermentation of kitchen residues mixed with cattle manure in all aspects .In this experiment all the kitchen residues are rice, vegetables, meat, eggs and other food all that have been after cooked, containing a large number of fat and salt, such condition is not suitable for the growth of microorganism. The time of gas production is only nine days and gas production rate is extremely low, only 1500ml accumulative gas production, But cattle manure’s accumulative gas production is 3028ml, COD removal rate was 21%, COD removal rate by mixed anaerobic fermentation of kitchen residues and cattle manure can achieve 60.92%.