the carboxylate platform
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Training That Makes A Difference
The Carboxylate Platform
Nigel Horan
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Lecture Outline
• The industry – why it should innovate
• What is the carboxylate platform?
• Potential benefits
• Retrofitting and new build
• Conclusions
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AD Industry
• Now over 185 digesters (more than water industry?)
• Processing 0.72 million tonnes food waste
• But producing 1.44 million tonnes digestate
• And >90% recycled to land
• Feedstock getting more difficult to source
• Security of land route?
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Gate Fee
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Transport and application cost to land
We are close to a situation where the cost of digestate
recycling may be greater than the gate fee!
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A Profitable Future?
• To maintain income the industry needs to keep being innovative
• The basic flow train offers huge opportunities due to the versatility of anaerobic organisms
• Parallel advances in thermal technologies (HTC) extend innovative opportunities
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What are carboxylates?
• an ester or salt of a carboxylic acid
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Why the interest in carboxylates
• Metal salts are high-value oil-soluble, water-insoluble detergents (fracking)
• Carboxylate platform provides a cheaper route for syngas (carbon monoxide, hydrogen, carbon dioxide) production from a range of waste feedstocks
• And many high value chemicals ……..
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Most important products
• Butanol (£2,400/tonne)
• Succinate (£2,600/tonne)
• Acetone (£1,800/tonne)
• Ethanol (£540/tonne)
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O
O O
CH2
OH
O
CH2
NH2
O
3-hydroxypropionic acid
1,3-propanediol
EEP
acrylamide
acrylic acidmalonic acid
poly(hydroxypropionate)
HO OH
O
HO OH
HO OH
OO
OH
O
OH
n
A Route to Acrylamides
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Conventional MADBiodegradable Organic Material (Carbohydrates, Fats, Proteins)
Simple Soluble Organics
Propionic Acid Butyric Acid Long ChainVFA
H2 + CO2Acetic Acid
Acetoclastic Methanogens Hydrogenotrophic
Methanogens
CH4 + CO2
Acetic Acid
Hydrolysis
Acidogenesis
Acetogenesis
Methanogenesis
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Balance of microbial processes for stable conditions
Hydrolysis Acidogenesis Acetogenesis Methanogenesis
Net acid producer Net acid remover
Ideal pH = 5.0 Ideal pH = 7.4
Biomass
polymers
Carbohydrates
Proteins
Lipids
Sugars
Amino acids
Long chain
fatty acids
Intermediate
Products
Hydrogen /
Carbon dioxide
Acetate
Biogas
Methane /
Carbon
dioxide
Conventional MAD at pH 7.4 is
sub-optimal for acid production
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How do we Drive Carboxylate Production
• Pure culture with sterile, glucose-based media (ABE)
• Mixed culture on waste with:
– inhibition (iodoform at 5g/m3)
– Organic loading rate control of pH
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ABE Fermentation
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Organic Loading Rate (OLR)
OLR = Feed rate (m3/d) x Feed VS (kg/m3)
Reactor volume (m3)
Dictates flow of energy through the system
Low OLR encourages Methanogenesis
High OLR encourages Solventogenesis
Very high OLR encourage Hydrogenesis
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Hydrogenesis Solventogenesis Methanogenesis
H2 Acetone, Butanol, Ethanol CH4
HRT (d)
pH
OLR
2 -3 4 – 5 >10
5.0 5.5 6.8
12 7 3
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Products of anaerobic metabolism of pyruvate (Solventogenesis)
Pyruvate
LactateAcetate
Acetaldehyde
Ethanol
Formate
Acetolactate
Acetoin
Butylene glycol
Acetoacetyl CoA
Butanol
Butyrate
Oxaloacetate
Malate
Succinate
Acetyl CoA
CO2
H2
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Hydrogenesis
Glucose
2 Lactate 2 Pyruvate
2 Formate
Ethanol Acetat
e
2 Acetyl-Co
2CO2 + 2H2
C 6H12O6
CH3COCOOH
HCOOH
CH3COOHCH3CHOH
CH3CH(OH)COOHLow pH route
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Ten routes
of
synthesis
from
pyruvate
(a)– (i)
Selected
based on
OLR
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Batch Production of VFAs
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Continuous Culture• VFA concentrations of
up to 25 kg/m3 in continuous mixed waste fermentation – and rising
• Waste C:N influences yield (higher C:N better)
• Low alkalinity encourages low pH
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Feedstock(type)
Pre-processing(screening, blending,
pasteurisation)
Digesters(long HRT)
Whole digestate
Dewatering
Whole Fibre
Liquor
Biogas & CHP
Existing Plant
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Feedstock(type)
Pre-processing(screening, blending,
pasteurisation)
Digesters(long HRT)
Whole digestate
Dewatering
Whole Fibre
Liquor
Short HRT Fermenter
(to produce VFAs)
Biogas & CHP
Thickening/Dewatering
VFA rich liquor (80,000 mg/l)
Thickened sludge
To RefineryEasy Retrofit to a VFA Factory
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Feedstock(type)
Pre-processing(screening, blending,
pasteurisation)
Short HRT Fermenters
Liquor
Thickened sludge
Circular Process with HTC
HTC
Liquor Solid Product
Fuel for energy recovery or to land
Thickening/Dewatering
VFA rich liquor (80,000 mg/l)
To Refinery
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Extraction?
• POD to POR approach?
• Strong UK chemical industry
• Refineries also need to diversify
• Opportunity to move away from a petrochemical economy
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Conclusions
• Thinking about the future will help secure the waste industry future
• A lot can be achieved in the laboratory environment, but is this real?
• Economic costing should drive research
• What does the industry want ?
• How can we involve the refineries