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    Citation - WoS: 3
    Citation - Scopus: 4
    Enhancing Biogas Production From Chicken Manure Through Vacuum Stripping of Digestate
    (Springer Heidelberg, 2023) Sengur, Ozlem; Akgul, Deniz; Bayrakdar, Alper; Calli, Baris
    The vacuum stripping's combined ammonia removal and disintegration effect on chicken manure digestate was evaluated for the first time at different pH values (8.5, 9.5, and 10.5) and temperatures (30, 50, and 70 degrees C). In this way, the potential increase in biogas production by recirculating the vacuum-stripped digestate to the anaerobic digester was determined. Experimental results showed that increasing pH and temperature significantly increase TAN removal, but pH is more effective. A significant portion of the ammonia was removed in the first 30 min. Therefore, a second set of stripping tests was performed for 30 min and at 70 degrees C and pH 10.5. After 30-min tests, a biomethane potential (BMP) assay was performed using the vacuum-stripped digestate to determine how vacuum stripping affects biomethane production. Despite having the lowest disintegration efficiency, the highest biomethane potential (56.2 +/- 29.7 mL CH4/gVS) was obtained with the digestate, which was subjected to vacuum stripping at 70 celcius without pH adjustment, and 48.7% more methane was produced than the control set. The lower residual biomethane potential in vacuum-stripped digestate at pH 9.5 and 10.5 was attributed to Na+ inhibition resulting from high NaOH consumption for pH adjustment.
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    Citation - WoS: 11
    Citation - Scopus: 14
    Effect of Pretreatment on the Performance of Metal-Contaminated Fluid Catalytic Cracking (fcc) Catalysts
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2004) Bayraktar, Oğuz; Kugler, Edwin L.
    Effects of both hydrogen and methane pretreatment on the performance of metal-contaminated equilibrium fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalysts from a refinery were investigated. Both hydrogen and methane pretreatment at 700°C were proven to be advantageous since the yields of hydrogen and coke from sour imported gas oil (SIHGO) cracking decrease while light cycle oil (LCO) and gasoline yields increase. The catalysts pretreated with hydrogen have shown slightly better improvement than the catalysts pretreated with methane. The decrease in the yields of hydrogen and coke was attributed to decrease in the dehydrogenation activity of vanadium oxides, which are present at high concentrations on the equilibrium FCC catalysts. This decrease in dehydrogenation activity after the pretreatment was also confirmed by low hydrogen-to-methane ratio. It was found that reduced vanadium has lower dehydrogenation activity since it produces less coke and hydrogen compared to oxidized vanadium. Hydrogen transfer reactions were evaluated by measuring C4 paraffin-to-C4 olefin ratios. Hydrogen transfer reactions decreased with increasing metal concentration. Both hydrogen and methane pretreatment caused the hydrogen transfer reactions to increase. Improved hydrogen transfer reactions caused an increase in the gasoline range products.