Biodiesel production from microbial granules in sequencing batch reactor

•Biodiesel production from microbial granules by in situ transesterification.•Biomass morphology is not a significant effect factor of biodiesel production.•Parameters change of transesterification will not affect biodiesel properties.•FAMEs composition of biodiesel is determined by microbial commun...

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Published in:Bioresource technology 2018-02, Vol.249, p.908-915
Main Authors: Liu, Lin, Hong, Yuling, Ye, Xin, Wei, Lili, Liao, Jie, Huang, Xu, Liu, Chaoxiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aerobic granular sludge
Algae-bacteria granular consortia
Bacteria
bacterial communities
batch systems
biodiesel
Biofuels
Biomass energy
Bioreactors
catalysts
Esterification
fatty acids
In situ transesterification
methanol
methyl palmitate
Rhodobacteraceae
Scenedesmus
Sewage
sludge
transesterification
Wastewater
Xanthomonadaceae
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Summary:•Biodiesel production from microbial granules by in situ transesterification.•Biomass morphology is not a significant effect factor of biodiesel production.•Parameters change of transesterification will not affect biodiesel properties.•FAMEs composition of biodiesel is determined by microbial community of biomass.•Operational optimization of bioreactor is important for biodiesel production. Effect of reaction variables of in situ transesterification on the biodiesel production, and the characteristic differences of biodiesel obtained from aerobic granular sludge (AG) and algae-bacteria granular consortia (AAG) were investigated. The results indicated that the effect of variables on the biodiesel yield decreased in the order of methanol quantity > catalyst concentration > reaction time, yet the parameters change will not significantly affect biodiesel properties. The maximum biodiesel yield of AAG was 66.21 ± 1.08 mg/g SS, what is significant higher than that of AG (35.44 ± 0.92 mg/g SS). Although methyl palmitate was the dominated composition of biodiesel obtained from both granules, poly-unsaturated fatty acid in the AAG showed a higher percentage (21.86%) than AG (1.2%) due to Scenedesmus addition. Further, microbial analysis confirmed that the composition of biodiesel obtained from microbial granules was also determined by bacterial community, and Xanthomonadaceae and Rhodobacteraceae were the dominant bacteria of AG and AAG, respectively.
ISSN:0960-8524
1873-2976
DOI:10.1016/j.biortech.2017.10.105