Insight into using hydrochar to alleviate ammonia nitrogen inhibition during anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge: Performance, metagenomic and metabolomic signatures.
Sci Total Environ
; 916: 170196, 2024 Mar 15.
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In this study, hydrochar (HCR) was used to alleviate high ammonia inhibition to the anaerobic digestion (AD) of waste activated sludge (WAS) and to elucidate the inner microorganism mechanism. After HCR addition, the cumulative methane yield increased by 73.6 % and 35.6 % under ammonia inhibition levels of 3000 and 6000 mg/L, respectively. Metagenomic analysis showed that HCR enriched the diversity of hydrogenotrophic methanotrophs, and the relative abundances of functional microorganisms with electron transfer capabilities (Geobacteraceae bacterium etc.) were 1.5-7.8 times higher than those without HCR addition. Metabolomics analysis implied that metabolites related to fatty acid degradation, such as glutaric acid and hexadecanal, were downregulated (2.9-15.7 %) under ammonia inhibition conditions and that HCR regulates metabolites in the methane metabolic pathway. Moreover, HCR changed the methanogenic pathway from hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis to multiple pathways under ammonia inhibition conditions, especially methanolic and methylotrophic methanogenesis, which facilitated the methane yield. This study provides valuable information for understanding the inner microbial mechanism of HCR addition on alleviating high ammonia inhibition to AD of WAS, and gives basic knowledge for the application of AD of WAS under ammonia inhibition conditions.
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