Food digestion in the gastrointestinal is a series of processes consisting of chemical and physical digestion. Recently, developing foods with controlled digestion in the stomach may attract more attention. Hydrogel foods are useful tools for designi...
High-solids anaerobic digestion of organic fraction of municipal solid waste often shows inefficient biomethane recovery due to mass transfer limitations. Consequently, this study presents a two-stage anaerobic digestion process combining high-solids...
Food allergy prevalence numbers are still on the rise. Apart from environmental influences, dietary habits, food availability and life-style factors, medication could also play a role. For immune tolerance of food, several contributing factors ensure...
The INFOGEST digestion method was adapted for the evaluation of sterol bioaccessibility in a plant sterol (PS)-enriched beverage [1]. Recent modifications of the method, such as the addition of gastric lipase and cholesterol esterase, showed that the...
Low and unstable digestion performance is a challenging issue for anaerobic digestion, which prompts researchers to develop new strategies. In addition to traditional approaches such as co-digestion, pre-treatment, and recirculation, some emerging st...
The anaerobic co-digestion (ACoD) of sludge (S) and slaughterhouse wastewater (SW) can improve biomethane production and removal efficiency in terms of organic matter. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of temperature on co-digestion,...
Wheat straw (WS) is considered a favourable substrate for biogas production. However, due to its rigid structure and high carbon to nitrogen (C/N ratio), its biodegradability during anaerobic digestion (AD) is usually low. In the present study, the e...
Multifilm mass transfer theory has been used in conjunction with developing a new in vitro starch digestion model and applied to assessing starch digestion kinetics. One significance of this research is that this in vitro model has similar dynamics,...
A two-stage temperature-phased mesophilic anaerobic digestion assay was carried out to study the interaction between various biological pretreatment conditions and the possible synergistic co-digestion of microalgae and primary sludge. The study of g...
Hydrothermal carbonisation (HTC) has been identified as a potential route for digestate enhancement producing a solid hydrochar and a process water rich in organic carbon. This study compares the treatment of four dissimilar digestates from anaerobic...
The increasing production of bioplastics worldwide requires sustainable end-of-life solutions to minimize the environmental burden. Anaerobic digestion (AD) has been recognized as a potential technology for valorizing waste and producing renewable en...
In this paper, the anaerobic co-digestion of three different organic wastes, including livestock manure, slaughterhouse waste, and agricultural by-products (ABs), was carried out to enhance the efficiency of mono-digestion of livestock manure. The ch...
This article aims to study the codigestion of food waste (FW) and three different lignocellulosic wastes (LW) (Corn stover (CS), Prairie cordgrass (PCG), and Unbleached paper (UBP)) for thermophilic anaerobic digestion to overcome the limitations of...
Swine manure poses significant challenges for anaerobic digestion due to its low carbon-to-nitrogen (C/N) ratio and elevated ammonia concentrations, both of which restrict methane generation. This study investigated the impact of integrating low-inte...
Cultivation of microalgae in waste digestate is a promising cost-effective and environmentally friendly strategy for algal biomass accumulation and valuable product production. Two different digestates obtained as by-products of the anaerobic ferment...
The augmentation of biochar (BC) during anaerobic digestion (AD) has been identified as a potential strategy for improving the AD of complex feedstocks. This study evaluates the influence of oak wood biochar 450 °C and fermentation conditions dur...
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is one of the most significant processes for treating fecal sludge. However, a substantial amount of microplastics (MPs) have been identified in septic tanks, and it remains unclear whether they impact the resource treatment...
Poultry waste is rich in organic matter, which allows its treatment by the process of anaerobic digestion (AD) to reinforce economic and environmental green strategies. The aim of this study is to assess the technical feasibility of poultry waste AD...
This study examines the effect of mixing on the performance of anaerobic digestion of cow manure in Chinese dome digesters (CDDs) at ambient temperatures (27–32 °C) in comparison with impeller mixed digesters (STRs) and unmixed digesters (U...
The digestion behavior of a food bolus comprising bread particles in the presence of gastric peristalsis remains poorly understood. This study systematically investigated the effect of bread type on in vitro gastric digestion behavior using a human g...
Considering the increase in the production and use of nanomaterials (NM) in food/feed and food contact materials, novel strategies for efficient and sustainable hazard characterization, especially in the early stages of NM development, have been prop...
The absorption of dietary phosphorus typically begins with the digestive phase, where various chemical processes take place. These include the solubilization of calcium phosphates by gastric acid in the stomach, as well as the enzymatic breakdown of...
Tomato processing and dairy industries generate significant effluents worldwide, contributing to environmental pollution and nutrient loss. Anaerobic digestion (AD) offers a sustainable solution by treating these effluents while recovering nutrients...
Cellular self-digestion is an evolutionarily conserved process occurring in prokaryotic cells that enables survival under stressful conditions by recycling essential energy molecules. Self-digestion, which is triggered by extracellular stress conditi...
Recent studies have shown that anaerobic co-digestion (AnCoD) is superior to conventional anaerobic digestion (AD). The benefits of enhanced bioenergy production and solids reduction using co-substrates have attracted researchers to study the co-dige...
To investigate the lipid digestive behaviors of human and infant formulas and analyze the differences between them, we investigated the fat globule particle size distribution, lipolysis rate, and fatty acid release of infant formulas with different f...
Background: Reduced nutrient digestibility due to low-protein (LP) diets occurring in the foregut or hindgut of pigs remains unclear. Methods: Growing barrows (21.7 ± 1.7 kg) were allotted into LP and high-protein (HP) diet treatments. Ileal d...
This laboratory study investigated the anaerobic co-digestion process of the halophyte S. ramosissima (Sram) together with swine manure (SM) in different mixing ratios in batch and continuous reactor experiments. In the batch experiments, a methane y...
This article reports on an experiment that aimed to investigate the effects of digestate and cosubstrate input with varying biochar concentrations on methane production in anaerobic digestion processes. The findings revealed distinct trends in methan...
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Anaerobic digestion is a technology that has been used by humans for centuries. Anaerobic digestion is considered to be a useful tool that can generate renewable energy and significant research interest has arisen recently. The underlying theory of a...
A typically overlooked by-product of the anaerobic digestion process is the liquid digestate. The digestate is generally high in valuable nutrients like nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus, which are essential for plant growth. This indicates that di...
In this study, the effects of physicochemical and biochemical digestion conditions on β-arbutin stability and bioaccessibility were investigated. β-Arbutin, at doses that correspond to its natural occurrence in plant materials (i.e., 1&ndas...
To enhance anaerobic fermentation during food waste (FW) digestion, pretreatments can be applied or the FW can be co-digested with other waste. In this study, lipase addition (LA), hydrothermal pretreatment (HTP), and a combination of both methods (H...
(1) Background: The continuously increasing demand for renewable energy sources renders anaerobic digestion as one of the most promising technologies for renewable energy production. Due to the animal production intensification, manure is being used...
Organic wastes and by-products from several activities, including food industries, farming, and animal husbandry, are a hygiene threat when aerobically decomposed. Therefore, their management is crucial for public health. In this direction, anaerobic...
Biogas production by anaerobic digestion from different wastes represents a growing interest in the panel of renewable energy. Digestate has already been a subject of numerous studies as part of microalgal culturing because it is still rich in nutrie...
Plant waste biomass is the most abundant renewable energy resource on Earth. The main problem with utilising this biomass in anaerobic digestion is the long and costly stage of degrading its complex structure into simple compounds. One of the promisi...
The Integrated Agriculture System in Indonesia was established in 2009. By the end of 2018, 752 small-scale anaerobic digestion (AD) systems treating beef cattle manure were successfully installed. In this study, the system was studied comprehensivel...
Edible pork by-products are widely consumed in many areas, whereas their digestion characteristics have rarely been evaluated. This work compared the digestibility of protein in boiled pork liver, heart, tripe and skin with tenderloin as a control. C...
This study aimed to enhance the nutrient balance of municipal solid waste (MSW), characterized by a high carbon-to-nitrogen (C/N) ratio, which is a critical factor in the anaerobic digestion process. The investigation involved the addition of MSW, wh...
The need to embrace a circular economy model for sustainable growth and development is increasing due to the rise in human population and the dwindling natural resources available to meet the demands for energy and food. In this study, anaerobic dige...
A significant expansion of anaerobic digestion (AD) processes would certainly result in a reduction in the current dependence on fossil fuels. The operational costs, the large amounts of digestate generated and the expenses of dealing with it and the...
Rice straw is an agricultural residue produced in abundant quantities. Open burning and plowing back the straw to the fields are common practices for its disposal. In-situ incorporation and burning cause emissions of greenhouse gas and particulate ma...
Blood from livestock slaughtering imposes a high organic pollution load and risks. If it is discharged untreated to sewer systems, it increases the organic pollution load on wastewater treatment plants by 35–50%. This paper reviews blood anaerobic di...
Cockroaches of the subfamily Panesthiinae (family Blaberidae) are among the few major groups of insects feeding on decayed wood. Despite having independently evolved the ability to thrive on this recalcitrant and nitrogen-limited resource, they are a...
Hibiscus sabdariffa L. (H.s.) is a polyphenolic-rich plant commonly consumed either as a beverage or spice. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the in vitro digestibility of H.s. polyphenols using an in vitro model of digestion which simulat...
Effects of two foods with bioactive constituents (black tea brew, BTB and grape seed powder, GSP) on lipid digestibility was studied. Lipolysis inhibitory effect of these foods was examined using two test foods (cream and baked beef) with highly diff...
Anaerobic digestion (AD) technology is commonly used to treat sewage sludge from activated sludge systems, meanwhile alleviating the energy demand (and costs) for wastewater treatment. Most often, anaerobic digestion is run in single-stage systems un...
Sludge, a by-product of wastewater treatment, contains harmful components that negatively impact the environment. One of the most ecologically viable and cost-effective methods for sludge treatment is anaerobic digestion, which produces biogas and st...
Anaerobic digestate from cattle manure fermentation may pose a threat to the environment. How to stabilize the digestate’s characteristics so that they do not disturb the bio-system is a critical issue for digestate management. Chemically enhanced pr...
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