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Effect of the inoculum/substrate ratio on the biochemical methane potential (BMP) of grape marc

Efeito da relação inóculo/substrato no potencial bioquímico de metano (PBM) no bagaço de uva

Abstract

The grape industrialization process produces large volumes of solid organic waste, with the grape bagasse being the main waste generated in the winemaking process. Anaerobic digestion can be used to treat and dispose of agro-industrial biomass waste. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of the inoculum/substrate ratio on the Biochemical Methane Potential (BMP) of grape marc. The experiment was performed in laboratory scale through a system of reactor bottles in batches, removing a set of triplicate flasks for sampling and analysis every 48 hours, with the test lasting 12 days. The reactors contained residue, inoculum and 20% of nutritive solution, maintaining 20% of headspace. The reactors were incubated in an incubator at a mesophilic temperature (35 ± 2°C) and shaken manually every 24 hours. Three different inoculum/substrate (I/S) ratios of 0.75, 1.5 and 3 were used to evaluate the methane yield, organic removals and at the end of degradation the morphology of the bacterial community was evaluated by means of scanning electron microscopy. The I/S 3 ratio provided the best results for loading anaerobic systems, indicating that grape marc presents potential for biological treatment through anaerobic digestion.

Keywords:
agroindustrial waste; anaerobic digestion; biogas; biomethane

Resumo

O processo de industrialização da uva produz grandes volumes de resíduos sólidos orgânicos, sendo o bagaço de uva o principal resíduo gerado no processo de vinificação. A digestão anaeróbica pode ser utilizada para o tratamento e disposição dos resíduos de biomassa agro-industrial. O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar o efeito da relação inóculo/substrato no Potencial Bioquímico de Metano (PBM) do bagaço de uva. O experimento foi realizado em escala laboratorial através de um sistema de frascos reatores em lotes, retirando um conjunto de triplicatas dos frascos para amostragem e análise a cada 48 horas, com a duração do teste de 12 dias. Os reatores continham resíduo, inóculo e 20% de solução nutritiva, mantendo 20% de headspace. Os reatores foram incubados em uma incubadora à temperatura mesófila (35 ± 2°C) e agitados manualmente a cada 24 horas. Três diferentes razões inóculo/substrato (I/S) de 0,75, 1,5 e 3 foram utilizadas para avaliar a produção de metano, as remoções orgânicas e no final da degradação a morfologia da comunidade bacteriana por meio de microscopia eletrônica de varredura. A relação I/S 3 forneceu os melhores resultados para carregamento de sistemas anaeróbicos, indicando que o bagaço de uva apresenta potencial para tratamento biológico através da digestão anaeróbica.

Palavras-chave:
biogás; biometano; digestão anaeróbica; resíduos agroindustriais

1. INTRODUCTION

Wine production is an activity that stands out all over the world (Devesa-rey et al., 2011DEVESA-REY, R.; VECINO, X.; VARELA-ALENDE, J. L.; BARRAL, M. T.; CRUZ, J. M.; MOLDES, A. B. Valorization of winery waste vs. the costs of not recycling. Waste Management, v. 31, n. 11, p. 2327-2335, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2011.06.001
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), producing large volumes of organic solid waste. According to Mello (2018)MELLO, L. M. R. Panorama da produção de uvas no Brasil. Nota Técnica: Embrapa Uva e Vinho. Campo & Negócio, p. 75 - 78, 2018, the production of grapes in Brazil for processing (wine, juice and derivatives) was 818,783 million kg in 2017, 48.74% of the total production of grapes, with the rest (51.26%) for consumption in natura.

For Zhang et al. (2017)ZHANG, N.; HOADLEY, A.; PATEL, J.; LIM, S.; LI, C. Sustainable options for the utilization of solid residues from wine production. Waste Management, v. 60, p. 173-183, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2017.01.006
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, solid organic by-products of wine production include grape marc, stalk, wine lees and sludge. The main one is grape marc, composed mainly of seeds and peelings (Christ and Burrit, 2013CHRIST, K. L.; BURRIT, R. L. Critical environmental concerns in wine production: an integrative review. Journal of Cleaner Production, v. 53, p. 232-242, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.04.007
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).

Although potentially polluting, for Avaci et al. (2013)AVACI, A. B.; SOUZA, S. N. M.; CHAVES, L. I.; NOGUEIRA, C. E. C.; NIEDZIALKOSKI, R. K.; SECCO, D. Avaliação econômico-financeira da microgeração de energia elétrica proveniente de biogás da suinocultura. Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental, v. 17, n. 4, p. 456-462, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1415-43662013000400015
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, biogas can be recovered through anaerobic digestion (AD), which is seen as an ideal form of biomass waste treatment. It is a promising technology in the management of organic materials and renewable energy production, nutrient recycling and reduction of waste streams (Li et al., 2018LI, Y.; WANG, Y.; YU, Z.; LU, J.; LI, D.; WANG, G.; LI, Y.; WU, Y.; LI, S.; XU, F.; LI, G.; GONG, X. Effect of inoculum and substrate/inoculum ratio on the performance and methanogenic archaeal community structure in solid state anaerobic co-digestion of tomato residues with dairy manure and corn stover. Waste Management, v. 81, p. 117-127, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2018.09.042
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).

The AD process is regulated by environmental factors, some of the main ones being temperature (mesophilic or thermophilic regime) and pH, waste composition, physical state and substrate structure and the inoculum/substrate ratio (I/S) (Angelidaki et al., 2009ANGELIDAKI, I.; ALVES, M.; BOLZONELLA, D.; BORZACCONI, L.; CAMPOS, J. L.; GUWY, A. J.; KALYUZHNYI, S.; JENICEK, P.; LIER, J. B. Defining the biomethane potential (BMP) of solid organic wastes and energy crops: a proposed protocol for batch assays. Water Science & Technology, v. 59, n. 5, p. 927-934, 2009. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2009.040
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; Zarkadas et al., 2016ZARKADAS, I.; DONTIS, G.; PILIDIS, G.; SARIGIANNIS, D. A. Exploring the potential of fur farming wastes and byproducts as substrates to anaerobic digestion process. Renewable Energy, v. 96, p. 1063-1070, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2016.03.056
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; Córdoba et al., 2018CÓRDOBA, V.; FERNÁNDEZ, M.; SANTALLA, E. The effect of substrate/inoculum ratio on the kinetics of methane production in swine wastewater anaerobic digestion. Environmental Science Pollution Research, v. 25, n. 22, p. 21308-21317, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-0039-6
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).

The ratio between substrate and inoculum is an important parameter in anaerobic digestion and is one of the most important factors for the initiation of a balanced microbial population in the anaerobic system (Haider et al., 2015HAIDER, M. R.; ZESHAN; YOUSAF, S.; MALIK, R. N.; VISVANATHAN, C. Effect of mixing ratio of food waste and rice husk co-digestion and substrate to inoculum ratio on biogas production. Bioresource Technology, v. 190, p. 451-457, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2015.02.105
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; Zhu et al., 2014ZHU, J.; ZHENG, Y.; XU, F.; LI, Y. Solid-state anaerobic co-digestion of hay and soybean processing waste for biogas production. Bioresource Technology, v. 154, p. 240-247, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2013.12.045
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). In a study by Latifi et al. (2019)LATIFI, P.; KARRABI, M.; DANESH, S. Anaerobic co-digestion of poultry slaughterhouse wastes with sewage sludge in batch-mode bioreactors (effect of inoculum-substrate ratio and total solids). Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, v. 107, p. 288-296, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2019.03.015
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, the results showed that the decrease in the I/S ratio led to the accumulation of fatty acids and high ammonia concentrations in the reactor, resulting in lower methane yields. In this sense, the relationship between inoculum/substrate, which is incubated in the reactors, influences the specific production of methane, taking into account that different residues require different proportions due to intrinsic characteristics of their generating processes.

Given the diversity of factors that affect anaerobic digestion, anaerobic biodegradation tests are used to establish the potential for biodegradation and determine the methane production potential of waste (Angelidaki et al., 2009ANGELIDAKI, I.; ALVES, M.; BOLZONELLA, D.; BORZACCONI, L.; CAMPOS, J. L.; GUWY, A. J.; KALYUZHNYI, S.; JENICEK, P.; LIER, J. B. Defining the biomethane potential (BMP) of solid organic wastes and energy crops: a proposed protocol for batch assays. Water Science & Technology, v. 59, n. 5, p. 927-934, 2009. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2009.040
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), and tests of Biochemical Methane Potential (BMP) can be used for such purposes (Holliger et al., 2016HOLLIGER, C.; ALVES, M.; ANDRADE, D.; ANGELIDAKI, I.; ASTALS, S.; BAIER, U.; BOUGRIER, C.; BUFFIERE, P.; CARBALLA, M.; WILDE, V.; EBERTSEDER, F.; FERNANDEZ, B.; FICARA, E.; FOTIDIS, I.; FRIGON, J. C.; LACLOS, H.F.; GHASIMI, D.S.M.; HACK, G.; HARTEL, M.; HEERENKLAGE, J.; HORVATH, I.S.; JENICEK, P.; KOCH, K.; KRAUTWALD, J.; LIZASOAIN, J.; LIU, J.; MOSBERGER, L.; NISTOR, M.; OECHSNER, H.; OLIVEIRA, J. V.; PATERSON, M.; PAUSS, A.; POMMIER, S.; PORQUEDDU, I.; RAPOSO, F.; RIBEIRO, T.; RUSCH, F.; STROMBERG, S.; TORRIJOS, M.; VAN EEKERT, M.; VAN LIER, J.; WEDWITSCHKA, H.; WIERINCK, I. Towards a standardization of biomethane potential tests. Water Science & Technology, v. 74, n. 11, p. 1- 9, 2016. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2016.336
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). Also, the BMP of the I/S ratios can be used to design installation parameters of a full-scale reactor operation, and according to Filer et al. (2019)FILER, J.; DING, H. H.; CHANG, S. Biochemical methane potential (BMP) assay method for anaerobic digestion research. Water, v. 11, n. 5, 2019. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11050921
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, even the size of the digesters and possibilities of biogas exploitation. For example, Holliger et al. (2017)HOLLIGER, C.; LACLOS, H. F.; HACK, G. Methane production of full-scale anaerobic digestion plants calculated from substrates biomethane potentials compares well the one measured on-site. Frontiers in Energy Research, v. 5, p. 1-9, 2017. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2017.00012
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found that the weekly methane production rates of BMP were similar and followed the same pattern compared to the full-scale reactor installation.

Thus, faced with the generation of waste that is part of the grape industrialization process, anaerobic digestion becomes a viable alternative for treatment and disposal of such waste, and may also be reverted into benefits for the production system of the winemaking itself. Therefore, the objective of this study was to compare the influence of the inoculum/substrate ratio on the biochemical methane potential of grape marc, evaluating at the end of the degradation the morphology of the bacterial community by means of scanning electron microscopy.

2. MATERIALS AND METHODS

2.1. Substrate and Inoculum

For the BMP assays, the bagasse of the pressed grape (hybrid cultivars Isabel and BRS Violeta) was used as substrate, reminiscent of the winemaking process, composed of peelings, seeds and moisture, without stalks. The residue was collected at Vitivinícola Quintas São Braz, located in the rural area of the city of Petrolina-PE, Brazil.

The waste collection process was performed according to the procedures of the German Guideline VDI 4630 (VDI, 2016VDI. Fermentation of organic materials-Characterisation of the substrate, sampling, collection of material data, fermentation tests. Germany, 2016. p. 92.) and ABNT NBR 10007, where simple samples were collected, taking four sub-samples of three sections (top, middle and bottom of the waste pile) to integrate the composite sample, which was packed, identified and transported under refrigeration. Physical-chemical characterizations of the substrate were performed in triplicate, analysis of total solids and total volatile solids, pH, humidity, phosphorus, total nitrogen and chemical oxygen demand (COD), according to APHA et al. (2012)APHA; AWWA; WEF. Standard Methods for the examination of water and wastewater. 22nd ed. Washington, 2012. 1496 p. , and organic matter (OM). The metals nickel, iron, potassium, sodium, calcium, copper, manganese, zinc and lead were determined by means of nitric acid digestion and subsequent analysis in atomic absorption spectrophotometer with atomization by air-acetylene flame in the specific wavelength for each chemical element analyzed according to APHA et al. (2012)APHA; AWWA; WEF. Standard Methods for the examination of water and wastewater. 22nd ed. Washington, 2012. 1496 p. .

The origin, quality criteria and preparation of the inoculum met the recommendations of VDI 4630 (VDI, 2016VDI. Fermentation of organic materials-Characterisation of the substrate, sampling, collection of material data, fermentation tests. Germany, 2016. p. 92.), using anaerobic sludge from the discharge of a UASB (Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket) reactor treating domestic sewage in a treatment station of the Companhia Pernambucana de Saneamento, located in Petrolina - PE, Brazil. The specific methanogenic activity (SMA) of the sludge for propionate, butyrate and acetate substrates is 0.125 L CH4 kg STV d-1, considered a good activity for anaerobic sludge (Angelidaki et al., 2009ANGELIDAKI, I.; ALVES, M.; BOLZONELLA, D.; BORZACCONI, L.; CAMPOS, J. L.; GUWY, A. J.; KALYUZHNYI, S.; JENICEK, P.; LIER, J. B. Defining the biomethane potential (BMP) of solid organic wastes and energy crops: a proposed protocol for batch assays. Water Science & Technology, v. 59, n. 5, p. 927-934, 2009. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2009.040
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).

2.2. Experimental Configuration of the BMP Assay

By adapting VDI 4630 (VDI, 2016VDI. Fermentation of organic materials-Characterisation of the substrate, sampling, collection of material data, fermentation tests. Germany, 2016. p. 92.) to the sacrifice bottle methodology adopted by Amorim et al. (2013)AMORIM, S. M.; KATO, M. T.; FLORENCIO, L.; GAVAZZA, S. Influence of Redox Mediators and Electron Donors on the Anaerobic Removal of Color and Chemical Oxygen Demand from Textile Effluent. Clean, v. 41, n. 9, p. 928-933, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1002/clen.201200070
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, the experiment was conducted in a system of 66 reactor bottles in batches, each with a total volume of 115 mL (Holliger et al., 2016HOLLIGER, C.; ALVES, M.; ANDRADE, D.; ANGELIDAKI, I.; ASTALS, S.; BAIER, U.; BOUGRIER, C.; BUFFIERE, P.; CARBALLA, M.; WILDE, V.; EBERTSEDER, F.; FERNANDEZ, B.; FICARA, E.; FOTIDIS, I.; FRIGON, J. C.; LACLOS, H.F.; GHASIMI, D.S.M.; HACK, G.; HARTEL, M.; HEERENKLAGE, J.; HORVATH, I.S.; JENICEK, P.; KOCH, K.; KRAUTWALD, J.; LIZASOAIN, J.; LIU, J.; MOSBERGER, L.; NISTOR, M.; OECHSNER, H.; OLIVEIRA, J. V.; PATERSON, M.; PAUSS, A.; POMMIER, S.; PORQUEDDU, I.; RAPOSO, F.; RIBEIRO, T.; RUSCH, F.; STROMBERG, S.; TORRIJOS, M.; VAN EEKERT, M.; VAN LIER, J.; WEDWITSCHKA, H.; WIERINCK, I. Towards a standardization of biomethane potential tests. Water Science & Technology, v. 74, n. 11, p. 1- 9, 2016. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2016.336
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). The reactors contained residue, inoculum and 20% nutrient solution, filling a working volume of 92 mL, to maintain 20% of headspace (Angelidaki et al., 2009ANGELIDAKI, I.; ALVES, M.; BOLZONELLA, D.; BORZACCONI, L.; CAMPOS, J. L.; GUWY, A. J.; KALYUZHNYI, S.; JENICEK, P.; LIER, J. B. Defining the biomethane potential (BMP) of solid organic wastes and energy crops: a proposed protocol for batch assays. Water Science & Technology, v. 59, n. 5, p. 927-934, 2009. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2009.040
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). The assay lasted 12 days, in order to make the identification of the potential faster, considering that normally most of the biogas forms in the first week of the trial. A set of triplicates was removed every 48 hours for sampling and analysis.

Prior to that, 24 hours before the installation of the experiment, the microbial biomass was acclimatized in the reactors, placing only the anaerobic sludge and the nutritive solution, enriching them to later receive the grape marc. After mixing and homogenization of the inoculum and bagasse, the pH of the contents of the bottles was checked using sodium bicarbonate, leaving them close to neutrality. Subsequently, the bottles were sealed with nitrile rubber caps and aluminum seals, with crimping pliers. The biogas was measured every 24 hours, a 10mL syringe was inverted into the lid of the reactor, through to the nitrile rubber cap and aluminum seal. The pressure inside the reactor pushes the piston of the syringe, allowing the measurement of biogas. The reactor bottles were incubated in an incubator at a mesophilic temperature (35 ± 2°C) and shaken manually every 24 hours. Methane production due to the possible presence of residual substrate in the inoculum was subtracted by performing blank controls.

2.3. Inoculum/substrate Ratios Used in BMP

Three inoculum/substrate ratios (I/S) of 0.75, 1.5 and 3.0 were tested and achieved by maintaining a fixed inoculum concentration (15 g VS L-1) and varying the substrate concentration from 5 to 20 g VS L-1 (Table 1).

Table 1.
Experimental conditions used for the different BMP tests performed.

The evaluation of the effect of the I/S ratio on BMP was determined by the percentage of removal of volatile solids and COD, and by the methane yield per mass of volatile solids added (L CH4 kg-1 VSAditioned). The methane yield (%R) was calculated in relation to the theoretical volume of methane (TVCH4) obtained according to Chernicharo (2007)CHERNICHARO, C. A. L. Reatores anaeróbios: Princípios do Tratamento Biológico de Águas Residuárias. Belo Horizonte: DESA, UFMG, 2007. 380p. (Table 2). The characteristics of the substrate, the anaerobic inoculum and the I/S ratios are shown in Table 2.

Table 2.
Physical-chemical characterization of inoculum, substrate and I/S ratios.

2.4. Collection and Characterization of Biogas

The collection of biogas for the characterization was performed within 24 and 48 hours of the experiment, time in which production peaks were observed. The characterization of the biogas proceeded regarding the composition of methane and carbonic gas. To this end, part of the biogas was transferred to 10 mL syringes with the aid of 3-way valves that allowed the connection between the syringes, and from these to gas collectors with nitrilic rubber.

The biogas was characterized in gas chromatograph Agilent Model 7890 A with detector type FID equipped with a methanator. The column used was agilentHayesep Q 80/100. N2 with flow of 25 mL min-1 was used as carrier gas. The temperature of the detector was 300ºC, the temperature of the column oven was 60ºC and the running time was 11 min. To calculate the concentrations, two calibration curves were constructed, one for CO2 (250, 500 and 1000 ppm) and CH4 (0.5, 1 and 3 ppm).

The volume of methane produced (VCH4) was obtained through the composition and volume of biogas, the rate of methane production was determined in relation to the VS added. The values were normalized to standard temperature and pressure (VDI, 2016VDI. Fermentation of organic materials-Characterisation of the substrate, sampling, collection of material data, fermentation tests. Germany, 2016. p. 92.).

2.5. Morphology of the Inoculum Microbial Community

At the end of the BMP assays, samples of the biomass contained in the reactors (inoculum) were characterized under VEGA3 TESCAN scanning electron microscope (SEM). Adapting to the methodology of Araújo et al. (2003)ARAÚJO, J. C.; TÉRAN, F. C.; OLIVEIRA, R. A.; NOUR, E. A. A.; MONTENEGRO, A. P.; CAMPOS, J. R.; VAZOLLER, R. F. Comparison of hexamethyldisilazane and critical point drying treatments for SEM analysis of anaerobic biofilms and granular sludge. Journal of Electron Microscopy, v. 52, n. 4, p. 429-433, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmicro/52.4.429
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, samples of 0.5 mL of sludge were fixed with phosphate buffer (pH 7.3) containing 25% glutaraldehyde, for 2 h at 4ºC. After fixation, dehydration with ethanol solutions was performed, washing the samples 6 times at 10-minute intervals at increasing concentrations (45, 70, 80, 95 and 100% v/v). These samples were fixed on aluminum supports (stubs) with double-sided carbon tape and dried at 30ºC in an incubator for 2 hours. The samples were then covered with a 20 nm thick gold layer in the Sputter Quorum Model Q 150R ES, with 15 mA current and 90 seconds metallization time.

2.6. Statistical Analysis

The results were statistically evaluated in the Sisvar® software (Version 5.6), through descriptive statistics and analysis of variance (ANOVA) applying the Tukey test at the 5% significance level.

3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

3.1. Organic Removals

Figure 1a shows the removal of volatile solids at the end of the digestion time as a function of the I/S ratios studied. There was no significant difference according to the Tukey test at 5% significance, between the relations of 0.75 and 3.0, which provided the greatest reductions, 59.22 and 59.24%, respectively. The ratio of 1.5 obtained the lowest percentage of reduction around 56.73%.

In studies carried out by Li et al. (2016LI, Y.; LI, Y.; ZHANG, D.; LI, G.; LU, J.; LI, S. Solid state anaerobic co-digestion of tomato residues with dairy manure and corn stover for biogas production. Bioresource Technology, v. 217, p. 50-55, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2016.01.111
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; 2018) the largest VS reductions were obtained in reactors with the highest methane yields, different from the present study, in which it can be observed that the largest removals were obtained in the ratios with different load extremes. Showing an uncertain trend regarding the removal of organic matter and the inoculum/substrate ratios, as well as in Córdoba et al. (2018)CÓRDOBA, V.; FERNÁNDEZ, M.; SANTALLA, E. The effect of substrate/inoculum ratio on the kinetics of methane production in swine wastewater anaerobic digestion. Environmental Science Pollution Research, v. 25, n. 22, p. 21308-21317, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-0039-6
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. Ros et al. (2016)ROS, C.; CAVINATO, C.; BOLZONELLA, D.; PAVAN, P. Renewable energy from thermophilic anaerobic digestion of winery residue: Preliminary evidence from batch and continuous lab-scale trials. Biomass and Bioenergy, v. 91, p. 150-159, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2016.05.017
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obtained percentages of VS removal, also with grape marc residue of 12 - 35%.

Figure 1b shows that the I/S 3.0 ratio obtained the best performance in percentage of removal (77.5%), a ratio that also obtained the best specific production of methane in relation to volatile solids. While the ratios of 1.5 and 0.75 obtained 61.7% and 57.2%, respectively.

Figure 1.
Organic removals in the different I/S relations. (a) Removal of VS. (b) Removal of COD.

The results were promising when compared to the study conducted by Leite et al. (2014)LEITE, V. D.; SOUSA, J. T.; LOPES, W. S.; HENRIQUE, I. N.; BARROS, A. J. M. Bioestabilização anaeróbia de resíduos sólidos orgânicos: aspectos quantitativos. Revista Tecnológica, v. 18, n. 2, p. 90-96, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.17058/tecnolog.v18i2.4888
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that when using typically vegetable waste, in addition to sewage sludge, a removal of 51% of COD was obtained. In contrast, Gueri et al. (2018)GUERI, M. V. D.; SOUZA, S. N. M.; KUCZMAN, O.; SCHIRMER, W. N.; BURATTO, W. G.; RIBEIRO, C. B.; BESINELLA, G. B. Digestão anaeróbia de resíduos alimentares utilizando ensaios BMP (Anaerobic digestion of food waste using BMP assays). BIOFIX Scientific Jornal, v. 3, n. 1, p. 08-16, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5380/biofix.v3i1.55831
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obtained a reduction of 80.98 - 81.63%, using food waste and anaerobic sludge in bench reactors. Talha et al. (2016)TALHA, Z.; DING, W.; MEHRYAR, E.; HASSAN, M.; BI, J. Alkaline Pretreatment of Sugarcane Bagasse and Filter Mud Codigested to Improve Biomethane Production. BioMed Research International, v. 2016, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/8650597
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working with sugarcane bagasse, obtained a COD removal of 69.64%.

The organic removal of COD is more cohesive in relation to that of volatile solids, showing higher removals as the I/S ratios increase.

3.2. Methane Yield

For the calculation of the methane yields, the values obtained for the volume of biogas, percentage of methane and volume of methane, presented in Table 3, were used, in which there was a significant difference between the I/S ratios applied. It can be observed that the I/S ratio 3, despite having the lowest volume of biogas produced, obtained the best percentage of methane. On the other hand, the I/S ratio of 0.75 obtained the lowest percentage of methane, even generating the highest amount of biogas.

Table 3.
Biogas volume, percentage, volume and methane yields for I/S ratios.

The I/S 3 ratio was statistically higher according to the Tukey test at 5% significance (Table 3), providing the best results for the cumulative production of methane in relation to the amount of VS added as a function of time, with 64.22 L CH4 Kg-1 VSadditioned, followed by I/S1.5 (45.96 L CH4 Kg-1VSadd) and I/S 0.75 (19.42 L CH4 Kg-1 VSadd). Evidencing that the higher the concentration of added inoculum in relation to the substrate, the higher the production of methane per gram of volatile solids, with an increase of 70% when the I/S ratio varied from 0.75 to 3.

Ros et al. (2016)ROS, C.; CAVINATO, C.; BOLZONELLA, D.; PAVAN, P. Renewable energy from thermophilic anaerobic digestion of winery residue: Preliminary evidence from batch and continuous lab-scale trials. Biomass and Bioenergy, v. 91, p. 150-159, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2016.05.017
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obtained for grape marc, during 40 days, 360 L CH4 Kg-1VSadd. Fabbri et al. (2015)FABBRI, A.; BONIFAZI, G.; SERRANTI, S. Micro-scale energy valorization of grape marcs in winery production plants. Waste Management, v. 36, p. 156-165, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2014.11.022
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also using grape marc, obtained 145-254 L CH4 Kg-1VSadd. This difference in yields may be associated with the fact that the above studies had an average duration of 60 days. However, in order to obtain uniformity between the duration times used in BMP tests, it is recommended that the experiment should be completed when the daily rate of biogas is equivalent to about 1% of the total volume of biogas produced up to that moment, according to the VDI 4630 (VDI, 2016VDI. Fermentation of organic materials-Characterisation of the substrate, sampling, collection of material data, fermentation tests. Germany, 2016. p. 92.).

Moset et al. (2015)MOSET, V.; AL-ZOHAIRI, N.; MØLLER, H. B. The impact of inoculum source, inoculum to substrate ratio and sample preservation on methane potential from different substrates. Biomass and Bioenergy, v. 83, p. 474-482, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2015.10.018
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, varying I/S ratio from 0.5 - 2, found that a higher ratio provides a higher BMP for maize (397.5 L CH4 Kg-1 VSadd). Pellera and Gidarakos (2016)PELLERA, F.; GIDARAKOS, E. Effect of substrate to inoculum ratio and inoculum type on the biochemical methane potential of solid agroindustrial waste. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, v. 4, n. 3, p. 3217-3229, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2016.05.026
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used I/S ratios of 0.5, 1, 2 and 4, obtaining the best yields in I/S ratio 4 for cotton ginning waste and in ratio 2 for grape waste (skin, seed and stalk). Rouches et al. (2019)ROUCHES, E.; ESCUDIÉ, R.; LATRILLE, E.; CARRÈRE, H. Solid-state anaerobic digestion of wheat straw: Impact of S/I ratio and pilot-scale fungal pretreatment. Waste Management, v. 85, p. 464-476, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2019.01.006
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, evaluating the impact of I/S ratios (0.9, 0.5, 0.3, 0.1) on anaerobic digestion of wheat straw, observed a drastic drop in methane production in the lowest ratios.

Thus, the biochemical methane potential test is an essential technique to evaluate the implementation and optimization of anaerobic biotechnologies (Silva et al., 2018SILVA, C.; ASTALS, S.; PECES, M.; CAMPOS, J.L.; GUERRERO, L. Biochemical methane potential (BMP) tests: Reducing test time by early parameter estimation. Waste Management, v. 71, p. 19-24, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2017.10.009
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). Although this technique is characterized by long periods of digestion, from 20 to more than 100 days, which is not appropriate to the need for rapid decision-making, as in the case of agroindustries (Raposo et al., 2012RAPOSO, F.; RUBIA, M. A.; FERNÁNDEZ-CEGRÍ, V.; BORJA, R. Anaerobic digestion of solid organic substrates in batch mode: an overview relating to methane yields and experimental procedures. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, v. 16, n. 1, p. 861-77, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2011.09.008
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; Silva et al., 2018SILVA, C.; ASTALS, S.; PECES, M.; CAMPOS, J.L.; GUERRERO, L. Biochemical methane potential (BMP) tests: Reducing test time by early parameter estimation. Waste Management, v. 71, p. 19-24, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2017.10.009
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). Thus, taking into account that the experimental period of the present study, 12 days, compared to other studies with other organic waste mentioned above, whether they come from the winemaking process or not, reveals the potential of grape marc for specific production of methane.

The methane yield (%R) shows that the experimental methane production was above 40% for I/S ratios 0.75 and 3 of the theoretical volume of methane (TVCH4), while the I/S ratio 1.5 obtained 67% yield from TVCH4 (Table 3), indicating that the organic fraction removed anaerobically converted into methane, from the treatment of grape marc, and that this method is a viable alternative for the use of residues from grape processing.

3.3. Morphology of the Inoculum Microbial Community

In the SEM micrographs of the 0.75 inoculum I/S (Figure 2), it can be seen that even with this ratio, which provided the lowest percentage of methane among the studied ratios, there was a predominance of bacterial morphologies in the form of coconuts similar to methanosarcine sp (coconuts adhered to the granule indicated by the arrows) belonging to the domain of the arches, in addition to long (ellipses) and short (circle) bacilli. Methanosarcines sp are the only group together with Methanosaeta sp to metabolize the acetate for methane production. Methanosarcin is capable of growing on substrates other than acetate such as hydrogen and predominates in environments with high acetate concentration and pH between 5.9 and 6.4. The I/S ratio of 0.75 presented a value of 4872 mg H Ac L-1 and pH of 6.86.

It is also observed that short bacilli and rounded bacilli were also found (circles) indicating bacteria belonging to the order of Methanobacteriales, of which, according to Gerardi (2006)GERARDI, M. H. Wastewater Bacteria. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2006. 255 p., the two main genera are Methanobacterium and Methanobrevibacter. The presence of these groups of bacteria and arches demonstrates a diversified biomass suggesting a balance between the communities of acetotrophic (coconut and filamentous) and hydrogenotrophic (bacilli) methanogenic microorganisms.

Figure 2.
Sample micrograph of inoculum I/S 0,75. (a) predominance of clustered cocci (Methanosarcines sp) and isolated cocci (arrows) besides short bacilli and bacilli with rounded ends (circles). (b) Long bacilli (ellipses) and short bacilli (circle).

4. CONCLUSIONS

The experimental results indicated that grape marc presents potential for biological treatment by anaerobic digestion, offering volumetric production of methane in 12 days, and showing the functionality of the BMP test in identifying the potential of grape marc establishing bases for its use as a substrate in the implementation of anaerobic biotechnologies.

The I/S 3.0 ratio obtained the best performance, providing the best performance of methane in relation to the added VS, methane and efficiency in the removal of COD, thus standing out as the most promising ratio for the loading of anaerobic digestion systems to the full-scale grape marc residue.

Microscopic analysis of the morphology of inoculum microorganisms showed microbial groups such as Methanosarcin sp. and bacilli with morphology of Methanobacteriales, even though this is the treatment with the lowest methane yield.

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Publication Dates

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    14 Sept 2020
  • Date of issue
    2020

History

  • Received
    07 Mar 2020
  • Accepted
    07 July 2020
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