Full-scale agricultural biogas plant metal content and process parameters in relation to bacterial and archaeal microbial communities over 2.5 year span

Agricultural biogas plants based on energy crops gain more and more importance because of numerous energetic, environmental and agricultural benefits. In contrast to older biogas plants, the newest generation of biogas plants is equipped with modern ICA equipment and reliable machines/engines. In this paper, the authors present technical details and operational results of a modern full-scale agricultural biogas plant using energy crops.

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Monitoring of full-scale hydrodynamic cavitation pretreatment in agricultural biogas plant

Bioresource Technology ◽

10.1016/j.biortech.2017.09.100 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 247 ◽

pp. 599-609 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Mirco Garuti ◽

Michela Langone ◽

Claudio Fabbri ◽

Sergio Piccinini

Keyword(s):

Full Scale ◽

Biogas Plant ◽

Hydrodynamic Cavitation

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Evaluation of nitrogen removal processes and microbial communities in eight full-scale municipal wastewater treatment plants

Applied Environmental Biotechnology ◽

10.26789/aeb.2019.01.007 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

Keyword(s):

Wastewater Treatment ◽

Microbial Communities ◽

Nitrogen Removal ◽

Municipal Wastewater ◽

Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽

Full Scale ◽

Municipal Wastewater Treatment ◽

Removal Processes ◽

Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants

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Metagenomic Approach: Transforming In-Silico Research for Improved Biogas Production

International Journal of Applied Sciences and Biotechnology ◽

10.3126/ijasbt.v7i1.23315 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 6-11 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Roushney Fatima Mukti ◽

Sanjida Sakhawat Sinthee

Keyword(s):

Microbial Community ◽

Microbial Communities ◽

Sequence Data ◽

Biogas Production ◽

Biogas Plant ◽

Rational Approach ◽

Production Scale ◽

Specific Element ◽

Metagenomic Approach ◽

Metagenome Sequence

The complexity of the microbial communities and metabolic pathways involved in the microbiological process of biogas production is poorly understood and numerous microorganisms in the fermentation sample of the biogas plant are still unclassified or unknown. The structure and function of microbial communities and the effects of the addition of trace elements are needed to be known, to control and channel the energy sources microbes produce and to capture and store the useful by-products or for targeted screening of novel enzymes. In this review, we discussed an emerging idea that Metagenome sequence data from a biogas-producing microbial community residing in a fermenter of a biogas plant provide the basis for a rational approach to improve the biotechnological process of biogas production. The composition and gene content of a biogas-producing consortium can be determined through metagenomic approach which allows the design of the optimal microbial community structure for any biogas plant for the significant progress in the efficacy and economic improvement of biogas production and biofertilizer of either balanced nutrition or rich in specific element for plant growth produced from the sludge of biogas plant. Biogas-producing microbial community from different production-scale biogas plants supplied with different raw materials as substrates can be analyzed by polyphasic approach to find out the best raw material composition for biogas production. The phylogenetic structure of the microbial community residing in a fermentation sample from a biogas plant can be analysed by an integrated approach using clone library sequences and metagenome sequence data obtained by 454-pyrosequencing. Int. J. Appl. Sci. Biotechnol. Vol 7(1): 6-11

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