scholarly journals Inhibitory Effect of Long-Chain Fatty Acids on Biogas Production and the Protective Effect of Membrane Bioreactor

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kris Triwulan Dasa ◽  
Supansa Y. Westman ◽  
Ria Millati ◽  
Muhammad Nur Cahyanto ◽  
Mohammad J. Taherzadeh ◽  
...  

Anaerobic digestion of lipid-containing wastes for biogas production is often hampered by the inhibitory effect of long-chain fatty acids (LCFAs). In this study, the inhibitory effects of LCFAs (palmitic, stearic, and oleic acid) on biogas production as well as the protective effect of a membrane bioreactor (MBR) against LCFAs were examined in thermophilic batch digesters. The results showed that palmitic and oleic acid with concentrations of 3.0 and 4.5 g/L resulted in >50% inhibition on the biogas production, while stearic acid had an even stronger inhibitory effect. The encased cells in the MBR system were able to perform better in the presence of LCFAs. This system exhibited a significantly lower percentage of inhibition than the free cell system, not reaching over 50% at any LCFA concentration tested.

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kris Triwulan Dasa ◽  
Supansa Y. Westman ◽  
Ria Millati ◽  
Muhammad Nur Cahyanto ◽  
Mohammad J. Taherzadeh ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (11) ◽  
pp. 1106-1112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohui Guo ◽  
Kang Kang ◽  
Gaoyuan Shang ◽  
Xiunan Yu ◽  
Ling Qiu ◽  
...  

The mesophilic reactor (MR) exhibited advantages in biogas production and performance stability over thermophilic reactor (TR) during the long-term anaerobic digestion (AD) of food waste (FW) with stepwise organic loading rate elevating. It was interesting to explore the mechanism causing the divergences in performances between these two reactors. The microbial activity was compared on day 110 when TR began to deteriorate. The results show that MR had significantly higher specific acetoclastic methanogenic activities (SAMA) and specific propionate and butyrate oxidative activities (SPOA and SBOA) than TR. The SAMA, SPOA and SBOA in TR were only 50.3%, 18.6% and 46.4% of those values in MR, respectively. Remarkably, the specific hydrogenotrophic methanogenic activity of 15.5±2.1, 15.7±4.6 mmol CH4·L−1 original slurry·d−1 in MR and TR was comparative with insignificant difference, which indicates that the microbial activity in TR had been inhibited widely apart from the hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis. Additionally, many particles with the diameters of 1–2 mm were observed to form in MR and identified as complexes of calcium and long chain fatty acids (LCFAs). The formation of calcium crystallization might alleviate the inhibition of LCFAs during AD of FW, which further supports the better performance in MR than TR.


1998 ◽  
Vol 53 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 995-1003 ◽  

Abstract Herbicidal chloroacetamides cause a very sensitive inhibition of fatty acid incorporation into an insoluble cell wall fraction of Scenedesmus acutus. The molecular basis was investigated in more detail. After incubation of the algae with [14C]oleic acid and saponification, the remaining pellet was solubilized and fractionated consecutively with chloroform / methanol, phosphate buffer, amylase, pronase, and finally with dioxane/HCl. By acid hydrolysis in dioxane a part of the cell wall residue was solubilized showing inhibition of exogenously applied oleic acid and other labelled precursors such as stearic acid, palmitic acid, and acetate. After extraction of this dioxane-soluble subfraction with hexane, HPLC could separate labelled metabolites less polar than oleic acid. T heir formation was completely inhibited by chloroacetam ides, e.g. 1 μᴍ metazachlor. This effect was also observed with the herbicidally active 5-enantiomer of metolachlor while the inactive R-enantiomer had no influence. These strongly inhibited metabolites could be characterized by radio-HPLC /MS as very long chain fatty acids (VLCFAs) with a carbon chain between 20 and 26. Incubating am etazachlor-resistant cell line of S. acutus (Mz-1) with [14C]oleic acid, V LCFA s could not be detected in the dioxane/ HCl-subfraction. Furthermore, comparing the presence of endogenous fatty acids in wildtype and mutant Mz-1 the VLCFA content of the mutant is very low, while the content of long chain fatty acids (C16 -18) is increased, particularly oleic acid. Obviously, the phytotoxicity of chloroacetam ides in S. acutus is due to inhibition of VLCFA synthesis. The resistance of the mutant to metazachlor has a bearing on the higher amount of long chain fatty acids replacing the missing VLCFAs in essential membranes or cell wall components.


1965 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. T. Canvin

Acetate-1-C14 and acetate-2-C14 were supplied to slices of developing castor bean endosperm. The molecules were extensively incorporated into long-chain fatty acids, water-soluble compounds, and protein. Oleic acid was the fatty acid initially labelled from acetate and it was the precursor of ricinoleic acid. Aerobic conditions were required for the formation of oleic acid and for the conversion of oleic acid to ricinoleic acid. Under anaerobic conditions the incorporation of acetate carbon into fatty acids was inhibited more than 90% and almost all of the C14 was found in stearic and palmitic acids. Stearic acid appeared to be formed first and palmitic acid appeared to be derived from it through a shortening of the chain. The position of linoleic acid in the fatty acid interconversions was not clear except that it was not a free intermediate in the conversion of oleic acid to ricinoleic acid.Malonate-C14 was only absorbed slightly by the tissue and although absorption could be increased by the use of diethyl malonate the metabolism of the compound was not facilitated. Because of its poor utilization by the tissue the role of malonate in long-chain fatty acid synthesis in this tissue could not be ascertained.


1973 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Henderson

SummaryThe effects of fatty acids, at low concentrations (0–005-O5 g/1), on the growth of seven species of rumen bacteria were examined.Anaerovibrio lipolytica(strain 5 S),Peptostreptococcus elsdenii(type 2),Bacteroides ruminicola46/52 andSelenomonas ruminantium(strain 17) were unaffected by addition of oleic acid to the medium. Growth ofButyrivibrioB 835 was stimulated by low concentrations of oleic (< 0–01 g/1), lauric (< 0–1 g/1) or capric (< 0–1 g/1) acids while higher concentrations of these acids were inhibitory. Myristic, palmitic and stearic acids were inhibitory at all concentrations tested.Ruminococcus4263/1 was inhibited at all concentrations of the six acids. Production of methane by pure cultures ofMethanobacterium ruminantiumwas also inhibited by the additions of long-chain fatty acids. Oleic acid was the most inhibitory of the series of acids. These results are consistent with the reported effects of lipids on rumen function.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sepehr Shakeri Yekta ◽  
Tong Liu ◽  
Thuane Mendes Anacleto ◽  
Mette Axelsson Bjerg ◽  
Luka Šafarič ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Slow degradation kinetics of long-chain fatty acids (LCFA) and their accumulation in anaerobic digesters disrupt methanogenic activity and biogas production at high loads of waste lipids. In this study, we evaluated the effect of effluent solids recirculation on microbial LCFA (oleate) degradation capacity in continuous stirred-tank sludge digesters, with the overall aim of providing operating conditions for efficient co-digestion of waste lipids. Furthermore, the impacts of LCFA feeding frequency and sulfide on process performance and microbial community dynamics were investigated, as parameters that were previously shown to be influential on LCFA conversion to biogas. Results Effluent solids recirculation to municipal sludge digesters enabled biogas production of up to 78% of the theoretical potential from 1.0 g oleate l−1 day−1. In digesters without effluent recirculation, comparable conversion efficiency could only be reached at oleate loading rates up to 0.5 g l−1 day−1. Pulse feeding of oleate (supplementation of 2.0 g oleate l−1 every second day instead of 1.0 g oleate l−1 every day) did not have a substantial impact on the degree of oleate conversion to biogas in the digesters that operated with effluent recirculation, while it marginally enhanced oleate conversion to biogas in the digesters without effluent recirculation. Next-generation sequencing of 16S rRNA gene amplicons of bacteria and archaea revealed that pulse feeding resulted in prevalence of fatty acid-degrading Smithella when effluent recirculation was applied, whereas Candidatus Cloacimonas prevailed after pulse feeding of oleate in the digesters without effluent recirculation. Combined oleate pulse feeding and elevated sulfide level contributed to increased relative abundance of LCFA-degrading Syntrophomonas and enhanced conversion efficiency of oleate, but only in the digesters without effluent recirculation. Conclusions Effluent solids recirculation improves microbial LCFA degradation capacity, providing possibilities for co-digestion of larger amounts of waste lipids with municipal sludge.


2020 ◽  
Vol 367 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Gajdoš ◽  
Jaroslav Hambalko ◽  
Ondrej Slaný ◽  
Milan Čertík

ABSTRACT Erucic acid (C22:1Δ13) has several industrial applications including its use as a lubricant, surfactant and biodiesel and composite material constituent. It is produced by plants belonging to the Brassicaceae family, especially by the high erucic acid rapeseed. The ability to convert oleic acid into erucic acid is facilitated by FAE1. In this study, FAD2 (encoding Δ12-desaturase) was deleted in the strain Po1d to increase oleic acid content. Subsequently, FAE1 from Thlaspi arvense was overexpressed in Yarrowia lipolytica with the Δfad2 genotype. This resulted in the YL10 strain producing very long chain fatty acids, especially erucic acid. The YL10 strain was cultivated in media containing crude glycerol and waste cooking oil as carbon substrates. The cells grown using glycerol produced microbial oil devoid of linoleic acid, which was enriched with very long chain fatty acids, mainly erucic acid (9% of the total fatty acids). When cells were grown using waste cooking oil, the highest yield of erucic acid was obtained (887 mg L–1). However, external linoleic and α-linolenic were accumulated in cellular lipids when yeasts were grown in an oil medium. This study describes the possibility of conversion of waste material into erucic acid by a recombinant yeast strain.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document