Alper Bayrakdar

In this study, anaerobic digestion (AD) of nitrogen rich chicken (egg laying hen) manure at different trace element (TE) mix doses and different total ammonia nitrogen (TAN) concentrations was investigated in batch digestion experiments. With respect to non‐supplemented TE sets, addition of TE‐mixture containing 1 mg/l Ni, 1 mg/l Co, 0.2 mg/l Mo, 0.2 mg/l Se, 0.2 mg/l W and 5 mg/l Fe at TAN concentrations of 3000‐ and 4000 mg/l, cumulative CH₄ production and CH₄ production rate improved by 7–8% and 5–6%, respectively. The results revealed that at very high TAN concentration of 6000 mg/l, the effect of TE addition was significantly high and the cumulative CH₄ production and production rate were increased by 20% and 39.5%, respectively. Therefore, it is concluded that at elevated TAN concentrations the CH₄ production that was stimulated by TE supplementation was presumably occurred through syntrophic acetate oxidation. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved