Functions of bacteria and archaea participating in the bioconversion of organic waste for methane production

FR Amin, H Khalid, HM El-Mashad, C Chen… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a widely applied technology for treating organic wastes to
generate renewable energy in the form of biogas. The effectiveness of AD process depends …

Methanogens: biochemical background and biotechnological applications

F Enzmann, F Mayer, M Rother, D Holtmann - Amb Express, 2018 - Springer
Since fossil sources for fuel and platform chemicals will become limited in the near future, it
is important to develop new concepts for energy supply and production of basic reagents for …

Bioaugmentation with syntrophic volatile fatty acids-oxidizing consortia to alleviate the ammonia inhibition in continuously anaerobic digestion of municipal sludge

MT Li, L Rao, L Wang, M Gou, ZY Sun, ZY Xia… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Ammonia inhibition easily affects the performance of anaerobic digestion (AD) for municipal
sludge and the oxidization of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) is the rate-limiting step of this …

Metagenome, metatranscriptome, and metaproteome approaches unraveled compositions and functional relationships of microbial communities residing in biogas …

J Hassa, I Maus, S Off, A Pühler, P Scherer… - Applied microbiology …, 2018 - Springer
The production of biogas by anaerobic digestion (AD) of agricultural residues, organic
wastes, animal excrements, municipal sludge, and energy crops has a firm place in …

Biologically produced methane as a renewable energy source

DE Holmes, JA Smith - Advances in applied microbiology, 2016 - Elsevier
Methanogens are a unique group of strictly anaerobic archaea that are more metabolically
diverse than previously thought. Traditionally, it was thought that methanogens could only …

Hydrothermal pretreatment of sewage sludge for enhanced anaerobic digestion: resource transformation and energy balance

X Liu, Q Wang, Y Tang, SG Pavlostathis - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of hydrothermal pretreatment (HTP) at
90, 125 and 155° C on the extent of anaerobic digestion (AD) of sewage sludge, energy …

A comparative study of mesophilic and thermophilic anaerobic digestion of municipal sludge with high-solids content: Reactor performance and microbial community

ZL Wu, Z Lin, ZY Sun, M Gou, ZY Xia, YQ Tang - Bioresource technology, 2020 - Elsevier
This study involved a comparison between mesophilic (MAD) and thermophilic anaerobic
digestion (TAD) of municipal sludge with high (10%) solids content; the reactor performance …

Performance and microbial community responses of anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge to residual benzalkonium chlorides

ZW He, WZ Liu, CC Tang, B Liang, ZC Guo… - Energy Conversion and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The emerging organic pollutants, quaternary ammonium compounds, have attracted
extensive attention due to their great enrichment in waste activated sludge (WAS). This study …

Correlation of Key Physiological Properties of Methanosarcina Isolates with Environment of Origin

J Zhou, DE Holmes, HY Tang… - Applied and …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
It is known that the physiology of Methanosarcina species can differ significantly, but the
ecological impact of these differences is unclear. We recovered two strains of …

[HTML][HTML] Process stability in anaerobic Digestion: Unveiling microbial signatures of full-scale reactor performance

D Santinello, G Zampieri, S Agostini, B Müller… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion is responding to the growing demand for sustainability by exploring
alternatives for methane production through renewable processes. The target is to …