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Understand microbial ecology can help improve biogas production in AD

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dc.creator Ferguson, Robert M. W.
dc.creator Coulon, Frederic
dc.creator Villa, Raffaella
dc.date 2018-07-04T11:25:22Z
dc.date 2018-07-04T11:25:22Z
dc.date 2018-06-17
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-25T16:36:53Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-25T16:36:53Z
dc.identifier Ferguson RMW, Coulon F, Villa R, Understanding microbial ecology can help improve biogas production in AD, Science of the Total Environment, Volume 642, Issue November 2018, pp. 754-763
dc.identifier 0048-9697
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.007
dc.identifier http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13314
dc.identifier 20567570
dc.identifier 20567570
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/182172
dc.description 454-Pyrosequencing and lipid fingerprinting were used to link anaerobic digestion (AD) process parameters (pH, alkalinity, volatile fatty acids (VFAs), biogas production and methane content) with the reactor microbial community structure and composition. AD microbial communities underwent stress conditions after changes in organic loading rate and digestion substrates. 454-Pyrosequencing analysis showed that, irrespectively of the substrate digested, methane content and pH were always significantly, and positively, correlated with community evenness. In AD, microbial communities with more even distributions of diversity are able to use parallel metabolic pathways and have greater functional stability; hence, they are capable of adapting and responding to disturbances. In all reactors, a decrease in methane content to <30% was always correlated with a 50% increase of Firmicutes sequences (particularly in operational taxonomic units (OTUs) related to Ruminococcaceae and Veillonellaceae). Whereas digesters producing higher methane content (above 60%), contained a high number of sequences related to Synergistetes and unidentified bacterial OTUs. Finally, lipid fingerprinting demonstrated that, under stress, the decrease in archaeal biomass was higher than the bacterial one, and that archaeal Phospholipid etherlipids (PLEL) levels were correlated to reactor performances. These results demonstrate that, across a number of parameters such as lipids, alpha and beta diversity, and OTUs, knowledge of the microbial community structure can be used to predict, monitor, or optimise AD performance.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject FOGs
dc.subject Glycerol
dc.subject Synergistaceae
dc.subject Ruminococcaceae
dc.subject Operationl Taxonomic Units (OTUs)
dc.subject Next-generation sequencing
dc.title Understand microbial ecology can help improve biogas production in AD
dc.type Article


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