This study investigates the enhancement of biogas production from hemp biomass residue (HBR) through hydrothermal pretreatment and co-digestion with cow manure (CM). Hydrothermal pretreatment at 200 °C for 15 min significantly improved the methane yield from 311.5 to 434.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aimed to convert CO in biogas into acetic acid using immobilized cells on various support materials, including activated carbon, expanded clay, and coir. Immobilized cells and free cells were evaluated for their CO conversion ability into acetic acid using H as an electron donor at an H to CO in biogas ratio of 2:1 (v/v), 30 °C, 150 rpm. Results showed that immobilized cells on activated carbon increased CH content to 96.
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November 2023
This study aimed at investigating the biohydrogen and biomethane potential of co-digestion from palm oil mill effluent (POME) and concentrated latex wastewater (CLW) in a two-stage anaerobic digestion (AD) process under thermophilic (55 ± 3 °C) and at an ambient temperature (30 ± 3 °C) conditions, respectively. The batch experiments of POME:CLW mixing ratios of 100:0, 70:30, 50:50, 30:70, and 0:100 was investigated with the initial loadings at 10 g-VS/L. The highest hydrogen yield of 115.
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February 2022
Some species of the genus are efficient acetate producers and have been deemed useful for upgrading industrial biogas. An acetogenic, strictly anaerobic, Gram-stain-positive, subterminal endospore-forming bacterium designated strain PL3 was isolated from peatland soil enrichments with H and CO. Cells of strain PL3 were 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThird generation biomass, i.e. microalgae, has emerged as a promising alternative to first and second generation biomass for biohydrogen production.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEmpty fruit bunches (EFB) have low biodegradability and restrict their commercial utilization in biogas plants. Integration of straw mushroom (Volvariella volvacea) cultivation as a function of bio-pretreatment on EFB to improve biodegradability and methane production by solid-state anaerobic digestion (SS-AD) was investigated. The mushroom yield was 47.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a suitable process for treating high moisture MSW with biogas and biofertilizer production. However, the low stability of AD performance and low methane production results from high moisture MSW due to the fast acidify of carbohydrate fermentation. The effects of organic loading and incineration fly ash addition as a pH adjustment on methane production from high moisture MSW in the single-stage AD and two-stage AD processes were investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe impact of the heavy metal contamination and acidity on the bacterial community was studied in samples collected from the Akhtala copper mine tailing using molecular approaches. The bacterial community structure analysis by PCR-DGGE fingerprinting revealed an abundance of Firmicutes, Acidobacteria, and Proteobacteria in different layers of the Akhtala tailing. 454 pyrotag sequence analyses revealed that a significant part of the sequences originated from Proteobacteria (49%) and Bacteroidetes (43%).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFsp. strain PSU-2 was isolated from thermophilic hydrogen producing reactor and subjected to draft genome sequencing on 454 pyrosequencing and annotated on RAST. The draft genome sequence of strain PSU-2 contains 2,552,497 bases with an estimated G + C content of 35.
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