A critical review on sustainable biogas production with focus on microbial-substrate interactions: bottlenecks and breakthroughs

NR Ram, GN Nikhil - Bioresource Technology Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Biogas can be an alternate clean renewable energy option generated from the anaerobic
digestion of biodegradable organic waste. It involves a complex cascade of metabolic …

Bioprocessing of low-value food waste to high value volatile fatty acids for applications in energy and materials: a review on process-flow

A Moza, NR Ram, NK Srivastava, GN Nikhil - Bioresource Technology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Thousands of tonnes of food waste (FW) are generated every year, and the majority of this
waste is left unprocessed. This FW can be used as a feedstock for the production of volatile …

Assessment of microbial consortiums and their metabolic patterns during the bioconversion of food waste

NR Ram, GN Nikhil - Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, 2023 - Springer
Anaerobic digestion (AD) of food waste (FW) is a complex process that involves a four-stage
sequential bioconversion of organic matter into biogas, catalyzed by a group of …

Anaerobic digestion of food waste with a selective mixed-microbial consortium and its evaluation with different optimization methods

N Raja Ram, GN Nikhil - Journal of Material Cycles and Waste …, 2024 - Springer
Food waste (FW) is a valuable resource for anaerobic digestion (AD) due to its biochemical
composition. This study aimed to optimize AD using two widely used optimization methods …