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Introduction
Food Industry
Food
Processing
Waste/waste
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Recent
Currentadvancement:
situation:
Recover
Contain high
energy
chemical
from
food
oxygen demand processing
(COD).
15,000 mg/L, 150 times
waste/wastewater
while
eliminating
greater
pollution
than
the
by
using
standard.
biological
Not properly treated.
technologies.
Climate
Small change factory
Reduction of GHGs
distributed
in
emission area without
residential
Water
quality treatment
a centralized
Reduction of COD
system.
Distributed
energy
Objectives
To develop a design support system for an energy
Food Industry
GHGs, COD
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Design
system
Methodology
Synthesis
Process synthesis is
established
to
synthesize an energy
recovery process that
deal
with
food
processing
waste/
wastewater
Comparative LCA is
conducted
to
evaluate
the
potential of GHGs
emission
by
the
waste-to-energy
Evaluation
process.
Environm
ent
Food Industr
The
most
conventional energy
production
is
selected
as
a
benchmark
Basis for Evaluation
Case study
A small scale tofu factory (Residential area, Tainan)
1 kg
Tofu
1.5 L Wastewate
Carbohydrates: 10,456 m
Tofu factory
3.03 kg Dreg
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Carbohydrates:
7,306 mg/L
Process
Characteristics Synthesis
of
waste/wastewat
er
Carbohydrates
Types of energy
recovery
Hydrogen dark
fermentation
Hydrogen photo
fermentation
Anaerobic
digestion
Oil
Biodiesel
production
Sugar
Bioethanol
production
Condition and
constraints of
process
Dark
fermentation
Input:
Carbohydrates
Output: Volatile
fatty acid (VFA)
Photo
effluent, CO2 & H2
fermentation
Input: VFA
Output: CO2 &
H2
Rely on
Anaerobic
availability
digestion of
light
source.
Input:
VFA
Output: CO2 &
Yes
Recovery by dark
fermentation
Is the effluent still at a
level above standard?
No
No
Recovery by photo
fermentation
No
Yes
Recovery by anaerobic
digestion
Yes
Tofu processing
Wastewater/dreg
Evaluated scenario
GHG
Supplementary
feedstock
GHG
Electricity
Tofu
7,350 L wastewater
14,847 L diluted dre
Reference scenario
GHG
Energy recovery
from
wastewater/dreg
GHG
Waste/wastewater
treatment
Effluent
GHG
Electricity
GHG
GHG
GHG
Effluent
Wastewater
treatment
Energy production
by reference
mechanism
Energy
( H2, CH4)
Feedstock
30,760 L-H2
1,630 L-CH
Evaluated Scenario
Dreg
Dilution
Tofu
Wastew
ater CO
Hydrogen
Dark-fermentation Fermentation
wastewater
Slud
ge
Anaerobic
digestion sludge
CO2
Anaerobic
Digestion
Wastewater
treatment
H2
Effluent
CH4
Reference Scenario
Waste/wastewater
treatment
GHG
Tofu
Wastew
ater
Municipal
wastewater treatment
Dreg
Composting
Power
plant
10
GHG
gas
Steam
reformin
g
Efflue
nt
H2
Natur
al
gas
Methane
extracti
on
CH4
Result (1/2)
By interview and literature review, the process
inventory can be collected.
For a small tofu factory that produces 4900
kg tofu in a day,
30,760 L-H2/day
7,877
Wastewater:
14,793
Diluted dreg:
960
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Dark
fermentati
on
3,600 L
1,630 L-CH4/day
Anaerobic
digestion
1,560
Wastewater:
2,929
Diluted dreg:
COD190(unit: mg/L)
19,000 L 47
Wastewater:
88
Diluted
dreg: 6
Result (2/2)
Evaluated scenario
kg CO2-equiv./day
3,616
3,526
Reference scenario
90
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Discussion
100 tofu factories in Taiwan.
residential area.
Climate change
353 tons of CO2 equiv./day can be reduced.
Water quality
14,514 ton COD and 3,476 ton COD can be treated by
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Dark
fermenta
tion
Anaerobi
c
digestion
Conclusion
Using case study, the design support system has been
developed.
By synthesis
Compose of 2 processes, i.e. dark fermentation and anaerobic
digestion.
By calculation
Size of reactor
YeeShee Tan
Email: ys_ethene@hotmail.com
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