Microbiological aspects of anaerobic digestion

✍ Scribed by P. F. Assche

• Book ID: 104778366
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 67 KB
• Volume: 48
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-6072
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00448444

✦ Synopsis

The complete degradation of complex organic matter to CO2 and CH4 is the result of the combined and coordinated metabolic activity of the digester population. In this respect, metabolic interactions between methanogenic and non-methanogenic species are of extraordinary importance to the anaerobic digestion process.

In spite of several studies on the predominant non-methanogenic bacteria present in anaerobic digesters (