Recognizing the challenges of anaerobic digestion: Critical steps toward improving biogas generation

M Rasapoor, B Young, R Brar, A Sarmah, WQ Zhuang… - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is one of the most promising technologies that can break the
complex organic substrate into biogas. However, biogas production from biomass waste and …

Microbial responses to different operating practices for biogas production systems

M Westerholm, A Schnürer - Anaerobic digestion, 2019 - books.google.com
Biogas production requires a number of different microbial groups that work in a
synchronized and closely interacting manner. For bioreactors constructed to maximize waste …

The hydrogen threshold of obligately methyl-reducing methanogens

C Feldewert, K Lang, A Brune - FEMS Microbiology Letters, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Methanogenesis is the final step in the anaerobic degradation of organic matter. The most
important substrates of methanogens are hydrogen plus carbon dioxide and acetate, but …

Performance enhancement of integrating microbial electrolysis cell on two-stage anaerobic digestion of food waste: Electro-methanogenic stage versus electro-two …

T Zheng, C Bian, B Xiao, X Chen, J Wang, L Li - Bioresource Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
The effects of microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) integration stage on two-stage anaerobic
digestion (TSAD) of food waste (FW) were studied via semi-continuous experiments. The …

An explanation of the methanogenic pathway for methane production in anaerobic digestion of nitrogen-rich materials under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions

DM Yin, M Westerholm, W Qiao, SJ Bi… - Bioresource …, 2018 - Elsevier
The impact of temperature on the anaerobic digestion of chicken manure was investigated
by studying the process performance and pathway for continuously-fed digesters under …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative study of high-solid anaerobic digestion at laboratory and industrial scale–Process performance and microbial community structure

E Perman, M Westerholm, T Liu, A Schnürer - Energy Conversion and …, 2024 - Elsevier
High-solid anaerobic digestion (HSD) for biogas production, compared with wet digestion, is
attracting interest due to advantages such as reduced fresh water usage, improved digestate …

Novel gas diffusion cloth bioanodes for high-performance methane-powered microbial fuel cells

L Yu, Z Yang, Q He, RJ Zeng, Y Bai… - Environmental science & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are a promising technology that converts chemical energy into
electricity. However, up to now only few MFCs have been powered by gas fuels, such as …

Effect of ammonia on the active microbiome and metagenome from stable full-scale digesters

J Ruiz-Sánchez, S Campanaro, M Guivernau… - Bioresource …, 2018 - Elsevier
Four full-scale anaerobic digesters with a long history of stable operation were characterized
in terms of active microbiome and metagenome. Isotopic fractionation of biogas …

Boosting anaerobic digestion of long chain fatty acid with microbial electrolysis cell combining metal organic framework as cathode: Biofilm construction and metabolic …

X Zheng, J Xie, W Chen, M Liu, L Xie - Bioresource Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
The role of metal organic framework (MOF) modified cathode in promoting long chain fatty
acid (LCFA) methanation was identified in microbial electrolysis cell coupled anaerobic …

Detection of novel syntrophic acetate‐oxidizing bacteria from biogas processes by continuous acetate enrichment approaches

M Westerholm, B Müller, A Singh… - Microbial …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
To enrich syntrophic acetate‐oxidizing bacteria (SAOB), duplicate chemostats were
inoculated with sludge from syntrophic acetate oxidation (SAO)‐dominated systems and …