Inferring microbial interactions in thermophilic and mesophilic anaerobic digestion of hog waste.

ABSTRACT: Anaerobic digestion (AnD) is a microbiological process that converts organic waste materials into biogas. Because of its high methane content, biogas is a combustible energy source and serves as an important environmental technology commonly used in the management of animal waste generated on large animal farms. Much work has been done on hardware design and process engineering for the generation of biogas. However, little is known about the complexity of the microbiology in this process. In particular, how microbes interact in the digester and eventually breakdown and convert organic matter into biogas is still regarded as a "black box." We used 16S rRNA sequencing as a tool to study the microbial community in laboratory hog waste digesters under tightly controlled conditions, and systema

SUBMITTER: Shaw GT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5521784 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature