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- In anaerobic digestion plants, proper mixing of materials and microbial communities is essential for efficient biogas production, but it consumes a lot of energy.
- A study on an 850 m anaerobic digester examined how different feeding and stirring methods affected microbial community homogenization using advanced analysis techniques.
- Results showed that the stirring and feeding conditions were effective, resulting in minimal differences in microbial proteins and processes throughout the digester.
Article Abstract
In anaerobic digestion plants (ADs), homogenization of the feed, fermenter content and microbial communities is crucial for efficient and robust biogas production. However, mixing also requires a significant amount of energy. For an 850 m agricultural AD equipped with eight sampling ports, we investigated whether different feeding and stirring regimes enable a sufficient homogenization of the microbial community using metaproteomics and terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (TRFLP) analysis. Systematic comparison of samples taken at the top and the bottom as well as at the rim and the center of the AD using scatter plots and students t-test revealed only a small number of differences in metaproteins, taxonomies and biological processes. Obviously, the applied stirring and feeding conditions were sufficient to largely homogenize the content of the AD.
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