process, a laboratory-scale continuous stirred-tank reactor (CSTR) was operated for 1100
days with sunflower harvested in a heavy metal contaminated site. Changes of microbial
communities during digestion were identified using pyrosequencing. According to the
results, soluble heavy metal concentrations were lower than the reported inhibitory level and
the reactor performance remained stable up to OLR of 2.0 g-VS/L/day at HRT of 20 days …