ArticleBiotechnology for biofuels2018
Intermittent fasting for microbes: how discontinuous feeding increases functional stability in anaerobic digestion.
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- Comprehensive ADM1 Extensions to Tackle Some Operational and Metabolic Aspects in Anaerobic Digestion.Microorganisms · 2022Article
- Microbiome Diversity and Community-Level Change Points within Manure-based small Biogas Plants.Microorganisms · 2020Article
- Soil-Derived Inocula Enhance Methane Production and Counteract Common Process Failures During Anaerobic Digestion.Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
- Competition Between Butyrate Fermenters and Chain-Elongating Bacteria Limits the Efficiency of Medium-Chain Carboxylate Production.Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
- Augmenting Biogas Process Modeling by Resolving Intracellular Metabolic Activity.Frontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundDemand-driven biogas production could play an important role for future sustainable energy supply. However, feeding a biogas reactor according to energy demand may lead to organic overloading and, thus, to process failures. To minimize this risk, digesters need to be actively steered towards containing more robust microbial communities. This study focuses on acetogenesis and methanogenesis as crucial process steps for avoiding acidification. We fed lab-scale anaerobic digesters with volatile fatty acids under various feeding regimes and disturbances. The resulting microbial communities were analyzed on DNA and RNA level by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism of the
resultsDiscontinuous feeding led to more functional resilience than continuous feeding, without loss in process efficiency. This was attributed to a different microbial community composition.
conclusionsThe composition of the microbial community determined the AD functional resilience against organic overloading in our experiments. In particular, communities with higher share of
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