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High-Rate Bioelectrochemical Anaerobic Digester for Biomethane Production from Food Waste

2025· article· en· W7117466338 on OpenAlex
Virender Singh, Abid Hussain, Banu Örmeci, Julien Pauzé-Foixet, Emmanuel Nwanebu, Hongbo Li, Boris Tartakovsky

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Bibliographic record

VenueBioengineering · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicAnaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
Canadian institutionsNational Research Council CanadaCarleton University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsFood wasteLeachateBiogasMethaneAnaerobic digestionAnaerobic exerciseBioreactorBiodegradable waste

Abstract

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This study investigated methane (CH4) production in a bioelectrochemically enhanced anaerobic digester (BEAD) equipped with a pair of 3-dimensional flow-through electrodes made of conductive polypropylene biorings. The performance of the BEAD reactor was compared to that of a similarly sized Anaerobic Upflow Sludge Bed (UASB) reactor. The reactors were operated at a temperature of 22 ± 1 °C using food waste (FW) leachate fed at organic loading rates of 3–8 g (LR d)−1 or at a temperature of 35 ± 1 °C using the liquid fraction of FW separated using a screw press. With both tested feedstocks, the BEAD reactor demonstrated up to 30% higher CH4 yield, reaching 0.35–0.38 L g−1 (COD consumed), compared to the UASB reactor. Additionally, reactor stability under organic overload conditions improved, with the difference more pronounced at organic loads above 6 g (LR d)−1. Energy consumption for bioelectrochemical CH4 production was estimated at 5.1–12.4 Wh L−1 (of CH4 produced), which is significantly below the energy consumption for electrochemical H2-based methanation. Overall, BEAD increases methane production and improves process stability, offering a novel sustainable solution for waste management.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.094
Threshold uncertainty score0.968

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

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Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.202
Teacher spread0.194 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it