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Effects Of Stepwise Temperature Shifts In Anaerobic Digestion For Treating Municipal Wastewater Sludge: A Genomic Study, Gede Adi Wiguna Sudiartha, Tsuyoshi Imai, Yung-Tse Hung

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

In wastewater treatment plants (WWTP), anaerobic digester (AD) units are commonly operated under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions. In some cases, during the dry season, maintaining a stable temperature in the digester requires additional power to operate a conditioning system. Without proper conditioning systems, methanogens are vulnerable to temperature shifts. This study investigated the effects of temperature shifts on CH4 gas production and microbial diversity during anaerobic digestion of anaerobic sewage sludge using a metagenomic approach. The research was conducted in lab-scale AD under stepwise upshifted temperature from 42 to 48 ◦C. The results showed that significant methanogen population reduction during …