Enhancement of methane production from Cotton Stalk using different pretreatment techniques.

ABSTRACT: China produces large amount of cotton stalk (CS) residues as agricultural biomass, which are incinerated on-site, causing air pollution. The high organic content of CS could be utilized for biogas production, but the direct digestion without pretreatment always leads to a low methane yield and biodegradability, due to the complicated structure of lignocellulose. In order to search best fitting pretreatment methods in effective anaerobic digestion (AD) of CS, effects of various pretreatments including KOH, NaOH, Ca(OH)₂, alkali hydrogen peroxide (AHP), H₂SO₄, H₃PO₄ and steam explosion (SE) were studied. It was seen that all treatments resulted in varying methane yields. Among all the pretreatments, acid pretreatment is not suitable for

SUBMITTER: Zhang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5823884 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature