Accelerating anaerobic digestion for methane production: Potential role of direct interspecies electron transfer

Z Wang, T Wang, B Si, J Watson, Y Zhang - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion is a commercial technology utilized to produce bioenergy from waste
streams. However, anaerobic digestion suffers from inefficient interspecies electron transfer …

Potential influences of exogenous pollutants occurred in waste activated sludge on anaerobic digestion: A review

J Luo, Q Zhang, J Zhao, Y Wu, L Wu, H Li… - Journal of hazardous …, 2020 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion is a promising approach for waste activated sludge (WAS) disposal.
However, a wide range of exogenous pollutants (eg heavy metals, nanoparticles) exists in …

Direct exchange of electrons within aggregates of an evolved syntrophic coculture of anaerobic bacteria

ZM Summers, HE Fogarty, C Leang, AE Franks… - Science, 2010 - science.org
Microbial consortia that cooperatively exchange electrons play a key role in the anaerobic
processing of organic matter. Interspecies hydrogen transfer is a well-documented strategy …

[Retracted] Microbial Ecology of Anaerobic Digesters: The Key Players of Anaerobiosis

F Ali Shah, Q Mahmood, M Maroof Shah… - The Scientific World …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Anaerobic digestion is the method of wastes treatment aimed at a reduction of their
hazardous effects on the biosphere. The mutualistic behavior of various anaerobic …

Extraction of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) of sludges

H Liu, HHP Fang - Journal of biotechnology, 2002 - Elsevier
The efficacies of extracting extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) from aerobic,
acidogenic and methanogenic sludges using EDTA, cation exchange resin and …

Potential for direct interspecies electron transfer in methanogenic wastewater digester aggregates

M Morita, NS Malvankar, AE Franks, ZM Summers… - MBio, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mechanisms for electron transfer within microbial aggregates derived from an upflow
anaerobic sludge blanket reactor converting brewery waste to methane were investigated in …

Critical analysis of biomass retention strategies in mainstream and sidestream ANAMMOX-mediated nitrogen removal systems

K Kosgey, K Chandran, J Gokal… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
ANAMMOX (anaerobic ammonium oxidation) represents an energy-efficient process for
biological nitrogen removal, particularly from wastewater streams with low chemical oxygen …

The essential role of hydrodynamic shear force in the formation of biofilm and granular sludge

Y Liu, JH Tay - Water research, 2002 - Elsevier
Biofilm and granular sludge processes are promising biotechnology for wastewater
treatment. The formation, structure and metabolism of immobilized microbial community are …

Review of upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor technology: effect of different parameters and developments for domestic wastewater treatment

MK Daud, H Rizvi, MF Akram, S Ali… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor has been recognized as an important
wastewater treatment technology among anaerobic treatment methods. The objective of this …

Thinking about bacterial populations as multicellular organisms

JA Shapiro - Annual review of microbiology, 1998 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract It has been a decade since multicellularity was proposed as a general bacterial
trait. Intercellular communication and multicellular coordination are now known to be …