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Thermal Pre/Treatment of Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste

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OFMSW consists mainly of food waste, with small proportions of the yard and paper waste, composed of bio-polymers-lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose, whose cross-linkage leads to difficulty in enzyme degradation thus reduce the overall process efficiency. Thermal pretreatment helps in the breakage of the lignin bonds and breaks down the crystalline structure of cellulose, leading to solubilization of COD, proteins, carbohydrates of OFMSW, higher biogas yield, and volatile solid removal during anaerobic digestion. This chapter concentrates on the temperature phase treatment and thermal pretreatment (conventional, microwave, and thermo-chemical), their principle, and their effect on process efficiency. Along with it, the merits, demerits of thermal pre/treatment, production of inhibitory compounds, and their effect on AD have been discussed. Furthermore, the commercial application, economic and environmental feasibility of thermal pretreatment of OFMSW has also been covered in this chapter.

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Abbreviations

AD:

Anaerobic digestion

CHP:

Combined heat and power systems

FVW:

Fruit and vegetable waste

HHV:

High heating value

HMF:

5-Hydroxy methyl furfural

LCFA:

Long-chain fatty acids

MSW:

Municipal solid waste

OFMSW:

Organic fraction of municipal solid waste

POPs:

Persistent organic pollutants

SRT:

Solid retention time

THP:

Thermal hydrolysis process

TPAD:

Temperature phased anaerobic digestion

TSS:

Total suspended solids

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Authors are thankful to Department of Biotechnology-GoI (Grant No. BT/RLF/Re-entry/12/2016) for financial support to this research.

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    Banafsha Ahmed, Satya Brat Tiwari, Azmat Naseem, A. A. Kazmi & Vinay Kumar Tyagi

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Anwar Khursheed

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Ahmed, B., Tiwari, S.B., Naseem, A., Kazmi, A.A., Khursheed, A., Tyagi, V.K. (2020). Thermal Pre/Treatment of Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste. In: Verma, P. (eds) Biorefineries: A Step Towards Renewable and Clean Energy. Clean Energy Production Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9593-6_5

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