Volume 12, Issue 3, August 2015, Pages 756–760
Fatima Ebich1, Hassan Elbari2, Nabil Cheikhi3, and Azzouz Essamri4
1 Laboratory of Agroresources and Process Engineering, University Ibn Tofail, Faculty of Sciences, Kénitra, Morocco
2 Biotechnology Laboratory, Environment and quality, University Ibn Tofail, Faculty of Sciences, Kénitra, Morocco
3 Laboratory of Agroresources and Process Engineering, University Ibn Tofail, Faculty of Sciences, Kénitra, Morocco
4 Laboratory of Agroresources and Process Engineering, University Ibn Tofail, Faculty of Sciences, Kénitra, Morocco
Original language: English
Copyright © 2015 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The olive oil industry in Morocco produces an important amount of olive mill wastewater (OMWs) which poses serious environmental problems, anaerobic digestion is the most interesting technique of olive mill wastewaters treatment. In this study anaerobic digestion of OMWs was performed in a semi continuous mesophilic anaerobic digester for 30 days, during the experiment, the volume of biogas produced was measured by the water displacement method. The pH was around neutrality throughout the experiment and the maximum of biogas yield coefficient was 2277 ml / g VS.
Author Keywords: Olive mill wastewaters, treatment, anaerobic digestion, digester, biogas.
Fatima Ebich1, Hassan Elbari2, Nabil Cheikhi3, and Azzouz Essamri4
1 Laboratory of Agroresources and Process Engineering, University Ibn Tofail, Faculty of Sciences, Kénitra, Morocco
2 Biotechnology Laboratory, Environment and quality, University Ibn Tofail, Faculty of Sciences, Kénitra, Morocco
3 Laboratory of Agroresources and Process Engineering, University Ibn Tofail, Faculty of Sciences, Kénitra, Morocco
4 Laboratory of Agroresources and Process Engineering, University Ibn Tofail, Faculty of Sciences, Kénitra, Morocco
Original language: English
Copyright © 2015 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The olive oil industry in Morocco produces an important amount of olive mill wastewater (OMWs) which poses serious environmental problems, anaerobic digestion is the most interesting technique of olive mill wastewaters treatment. In this study anaerobic digestion of OMWs was performed in a semi continuous mesophilic anaerobic digester for 30 days, during the experiment, the volume of biogas produced was measured by the water displacement method. The pH was around neutrality throughout the experiment and the maximum of biogas yield coefficient was 2277 ml / g VS.
Author Keywords: Olive mill wastewaters, treatment, anaerobic digestion, digester, biogas.
How to Cite this Article
Fatima Ebich, Hassan Elbari, Nabil Cheikhi, and Azzouz Essamri, “Anaerobic digestion of olive mill wastewaters to produce biogas,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 756–760, August 2015.
