휘발성 지방산의 생성 및 회수를 위한 분리막의 유효성을 실험적으로 검토한 결과, 분리막의 적용에 의해 발효조 내의 부유고형물 농도, 유기산 생성균수 및 유기산 농도가 증가하였다. 혐기성 발효액의 고액분리 및 발효 효율향상을 위한 분리막의 적용은 발효조 내의 관련 미생물 농도를 증가시키고 따라서 분리막을 적용하지 않은 경우에 비해 유기산 생성효율이 훨씬 증가하였다. 분리막이 결합된 산 발효조의 적용은 유기성 슬러지로부터 휘발성 지방산의 회수 효율증대에 효과적인 적용기술이라 판단된다.

Volatile organic silicon compounds (namely as siloxanes) are impurities in biogas generated from landfill and biogas.They have been known to cause damages to gas combustion engines. However, factors affecting process design decisionshave been less studied. In this research, we experimentally determined the gas-liquid partition coefficients (Kp) of siloxanesby applied the equilibrium partition experiment in closed system. we also investigated the effects of liquid solutes onsiloxanes partitioning. Five different types of siloxanes and five different types of liquid solutes (distilled water, nutrientsolution, ferrous sulfate solution, and surfactant solutions) were selected for this study. Dimensionless gas-liquid partitioncoefficients of siloxanes were determined to be 8.808 for L2, 2.278 for L3, 1.455 for L4, 3.435 for D4, and 0.770 forD5. Partition coefficients varied by liquid solutes, Especially for surfactants as liquid solutes, mass transfer of siloxanesfrom gas to liquid was enhanced, showing the lowest coefficients of partitioning.