A comprehensive review on food waste anaerobic co-digestion: Research progress and tendencies

  • Kaili Liu
  • , Longyi Lv*
  • , Weiguang Li
  • , Zhijun Ren
  • , Pengfei Wang
  • , Xiaoyang Liu
  • , Wenfang Gao
  • , Li Sun
  • , Guangming Zhang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Food waste (FW) anaerobic digestion systems are prone to imbalance during long-term operation, and the imbalance mechanism is complex. Anaerobic co-digestion (AcoD) of FW and other substrates can overcome the performance limitations of single digestion, allowing for the mutual use of multiple wastes and resource recovery. Research on the AcoD of FW has been widely conducted and successfully applied to a practical engineering scale. Therefore, this review describes the research progress of AcoD of FW with other substrates. By analyzing the problems and challenges faced by AcoD of FW, the synergistic effects and influencing factors of different biomass wastes are discussed, and improvement strategies to improve the performance of AcoD of FW are summarized from different reaction stages of anaerobic digestion. By combing the research progress of AcoD of FW, it provides a reference for the optimization and improvement of the performance of the co-digestion system.

Original languageEnglish
Article number163155
JournalScience of the Total Environment
Volume878
DOIs
StatePublished - 20 Jun 2023

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
  2. SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
    SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

Keywords

  • Anaerobic co-digestion
  • Food waste
  • Life cycle assessment
  • Microbial community
  • Modeling
  • Synergistic effect

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