Biological Pretreatment of Chicken Feather and Biogas Production from Total Broth

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• 作者：Regina J. Patinvoh ; Elisabeth Feuk-Lagerstedt…
• 关键词：Chicken feather ; Pretreatment ; Bacillus substilis strain ; Keratinase ; Biogas production ; Mesophilic ; Hydrolysate ; Total broth ; Bacteria granules
• 刊名：Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：180
• 期：7
• 页码：1401-1415
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• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Biotechnology; Biochemistry, general;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1559-0291
• 卷排序：180

文摘

Chicken feathers are available in large quantities around the world causing environmental challenges. The feathers are composed of keratin that is a recalcitrant protein and is hard to degrade. In this work, chicken feathers were aerobically pretreated for 2–8 days at total solid concentrations of 5, 10, and 20 % by Bacillus sp. C₄, a bacterium that produces both α- and β-keratinases. Then, the liquid fraction (feather hydrolysate) as well as the total broth (liquid and solid fraction of pretreated feathers) was used as substrates for biogas production using anaerobic sludge or bacteria granules as inoculum. The biological pretreatment of feather waste was productive; about 75 % of feather was converted to soluble crude protein after 8 days of degradation at initial feather concentration of 5 %. Bacteria granules performed better during anaerobic digestion of untreated feathers, resulting in approximately two times more methane yield (i.e., 199 mlCH₄/gVS compared to 105 mlCH₄/gVS when sludge was used). Pretreatment improved methane yield by 292 and 105 % when sludge and granules were used on the hydrolysate. Bacteria granules worked effectively on the total broth, yielded 445 mlCH₄/gVS methane, which is 124 % more than that obtained with the same type of inoculum from untreated feather.