The invention discloses a three-phase process for producing medium-chain
fatty acid by using kitchen waste, which comprises the following steps of: (1) collecting the kitchen waste, pretreating the kitchen waste, stirring the kitchen waste by using a stirrer until the kitchen waste is pasty, and storing the pasty kitchen waste for later use; (2) taking a reaction container, adding the kitchen waste
slurry and
anaerobic sludge, adjusting the pH value, maintaining an anaerobic environment in the reaction container, and carrying out anaerobic
fermentation to generate short-chain acid; (3) adding the kitchen waste
slurry into another reaction container, adding
saccharomycetes, adjusting the pH value, maintaining an anaerobic environment in the reaction container, and carrying out anaerobic
fermentation to generate
ethanol; and (4) centrifugally filtering the
fermentation supernatant in the steps (2) and (3), taking another reaction container, mixing the filtered supernatant in the steps (2) and (3), inoculating the domesticated chain extension
sludge, adjusting the pH value, maintaining the anaerobic environment in the reaction container, and carrying out chain extension reaction to generate the medium-chain
fatty acid. The process disclosed by the invention realizes multi-dimensional value-added utilization of producing short-chain acid,
ethanol and medium-chain
fatty acid from the kitchen waste.