Abstract
The brewery industry generates a large amount of by-products and notably Brewer's Spent Grain (BSG) which seems an attractive substrate for anaerobic digestion. Nevertheless, previous studies have shown risk of inhibition in the mono-digestion of lignocellulosic substrates. One way to stabilize the reaction is the addition of trace elements. The current study evaluates and compares the stability of BSG anaerobic mono-digestion with and without addition of trace elements for several BSG samples. Based on the average composition of the BSG, two levels of nutrients addition were defined and tested on 4 different BSG samples. Control reactors, without addition of nutrients, showed signs of instability after 3 months or less of operation, with a decrease in performance and even collapse. On the contrary, supplemented reactors led to a COD removal rate of 60–65% and a methane production ranged between 220 and 350 NL CH4.kg−1 VSadded, depending on the sample. According to these results, guidelines for nutrients solution addition adapted to BSG degradation were defined.
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