Ethanol pretreatment drives microbial community adaptation to overcome acidification in high-solid anaerobic digestion of food waste under rapid organic loading shock.
This study investigated how ethanol pretreatment (EP) enhances the resilience of high-solid anaerobic digestion against rapid organic loading shocks. Semi-continuous reactors fed with either untreated or EP-treated food waste were compared, and the underlying mechanisms were elucidated by integrating thermodynamic calc...