Abstract
Abstract
Lactic acid production through fermentation is an established technology, however, improvements are necessary to reduce the process costs and to decrease its market price. Lactic acid is used in many industrial sectors and its market has increased in the last decade for its use as the raw material for polylactic acid product. Using food waste as a cheap and renewable substrate, as well as fermentation at uncontrolled pH, helps to make the production cheaper and to simplify the downstream purification process. Lactic acid production at acidic conditions and the role of varying organic loading rate (OLR) and hydraulic retention time (HRT) were tested in two different semicontinuous batch fermentation systems. Reactor performances indicated that lactic acid fermentation was still possible at pH < 3.5 and even up to a pH of 2.95. The highest lactic acid production was recorded at 14-day HRT, 2.14 g VS/L·day OLR, and pH 3.11 with a maximum lactic acid concentration of 8.72 g/L and a relative yield of 0.82 g lactate/g carbohydrates. The fermentation microbial community was dominated by Lactobacillus strains, the organism mainly responsible for lactic acid conversion from carbohydrates. This study shows that low pH fermentation is a key parameter to improve lactic acid production from food waste in a semicontinuous system. Acidic pH favored both the selection of Lactobacillus strains and inhibited VFA producers from utilizing lactic acid as primary substrate, thus promoting the accumulation of lactic acid. Finally, production yields tend to decrease with high OLR and low HRT, while lactic acid production rates showed the opposite trend.
Funder
Science Foundation Ireland
National University Ireland, Galway
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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