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Tunca B, Kutlar FE, Kas A, Yilmazel YD. Enhanced biohydrogen production from high loads of unpretreated cattle manure by cellulolytic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor bescii at 75 °C. WASTE MANAGEMENT (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2023; 171:401-410. [PMID: 37776811 DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2023.09.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2023] [Revised: 09/12/2023] [Accepted: 09/21/2023] [Indexed: 10/02/2023]
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Caldicellulosiruptor bescii is the most thermophilic cellulolytic bacterium capable of fermenting crystalline cellulose identified to date, and it also has a superior ability to degrade plant biomass without any pretreatment. This study is the first to assess the potential of utilizing unpretreated cattle manure (UCM) as a feedstock for hydrogen (H2) production by C. bescii at a concentration range between 2.5-50 g volatile solids (VS)/L. At 50 g VS/L UCM concentrations, H2 production ceased due to inhibition of C. bescii. To alleviate the impacts of inhibition, two strategies were adopted: (i) reduction of H2 build-up in the reactor headspace via gas sparging and (ii) adaptation of C. bescii to UCM via adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE). The former increased H2 yield by 47% compared to the control reactors, where no sparging was applied. The latter increased H2 yield by 142% compared to the control reactors inoculated by the wild type C. bescii. The UCM-adapted C. bescii demonstrated a remarkable H2 yield of 161.3 ± 1.6 mL H2/g VSadded at 15 g VS/L. This yield represents a twofold increase compared to the maximum H2 yield reported in the literature amongst fermentation studies utilizing manure as feed. At 15 g VS/L, around 73% of UCM was solubilized, and the carbon balance indicated that most of the effluent carbon was in the sugar- and acid-form. The remarkable ability of C. bescii to produce H2 from UCM under non-sterile conditions presents a significant potential for sustainable biohydrogen production from renewable feedstocks.
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- Berivan Tunca
- Department of Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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Stoyancheva G, Kabaivanova L, Hubenov V, Chorukova E. Metagenomic Analysis of Bacterial, Archaeal and Fungal Diversity in Two-Stage Anaerobic Biodegradation for Production of Hydrogen and Methane from Corn Steep Liquor. Microorganisms 2023; 11:1263. [PMID: 37317237 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms11051263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2023] [Revised: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/16/2023] Open
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The main purpose of this study was to identify the microbial communities (bacterial, archaeal and fungal) in a two-stage system of anaerobic bioreactors for the production of hydrogen and methane from the waste substrate-corn steep liquor. Wastes from the food industry are valuable resources with potential in biotechnological production because of their high organic matter contents. In addition, the production of hydrogen and methane, volatile fatty acids, reducing sugars and cellulose content was monitored. Two-stage anaerobic biodegradation processes were performed by microbial populations in the first hydrogen generating bioreactor (working volume of 3 dm3) and in the second methane-generating reactor (working volume of 15 dm3). Cumulative hydrogen yield reached 2000 cm3 or 670 cm3/L a day, while the methane production reached a maximum quantity of 3300 cm3 or 220 cm3/L a day. Microbial consortia in anaerobic digestion systems play an essential role for process optimization and biofuel production enhancement. The obtained results showed the possibility of conducting two separate processes-the hydrogenic (hydrolysis and acidogenesis) and methanogenic (acetogenesis and methanogenesis)-as two stages of anaerobic digestion to favor energy production under controlled conditions with corn steep liquor. The diversity of microorganisms as main participants in the processes in the bioreactors of the two-stage system was followed using metagenome sequencing and bioinformatics analysis. The obtained metagenomic data showed that the most abundant phylum in both bacterial communities was Firmicutes-58.61% and 36.49% in bioreactors 1 and 2, respectively. Phylum Actinobacteria were found in significant quantities (22.91%) in the microbial community in Bioreactor 1, whereas in Bioreactor 2, they were 2.1%. Bacteroidetes are present in both bioreactors. Phylum Euryarchaeota made up 0.4% of the contents in the first bioreactor and 11.4% in the second. As the dominant genera among methanogenic archaea are Methanothrix (8.03%) and Methanosarcina (3.39%), the main fungal representatives were Saccharomyces cerevisiae. New knowledge of anaerobic digestion mediated by novel microbial consortia could be widely used to convert different wastes to green energy.
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- Galina Stoyancheva
- Department of General Microbiology, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., bl. 26, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Biotechnology, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., bl. 26, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Biotechnology, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., bl. 26, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Biotechnology, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., bl. 26, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
- Department of Bioinformatics and Mathematical Modelling, Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., bl. 105, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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Cioabla A, Duma VF, Mnerie C, Erdelyi RA, Dobre GM, Bradu A, Podoleanu A. Effect of an Anaerobic Fermentation Process on 3D-Printed PLA Materials of a Biogas-Generating Reactor. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 15:8571. [PMID: 36500067 PMCID: PMC9735893 DOI: 10.3390/ma15238571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2022] [Revised: 11/19/2022] [Accepted: 11/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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3D-printed materials are present in numerous applications, from medicine to engineering. The aim of this study is to assess their suitability for an application of interest today, that of testing of 3D-printed polylactic acid (PLA)-based reactors for biogas production using anaerobic digestion. The impact of temperature, pH, and aqueous phase on the tested bioreactor is investigated, together with the effect of the gaseous phase (i.e., produced biogas). Two batches of materials used separately, one after another inside the bioreactor were considered, in a realistic situation. Two essential parameters inside the reactor (i.e., pH and temperature) were continuously monitored during a time interval of 25 to 30 days for each of the two biogas-generating processes. To understand the impact of these processes on the walls of the bioreactor, samples of 3D-printed material were placed at three levels: at the top (i.e., outside the substrate), in the middle, and at the bottom of the bioreactor. The samples were analyzed using a non-destructive imaging method, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). An in-house developed swept-source (SS) OCT system, master-slave (MS) enhanced, operating at a central wavelength of 1310 nm was utilized. The 3D OCT images related to the degradation level of the material of the PLA samples were validated using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). The differences between the impact of the substrate on samples situated at the three considered levels inside the reactor were determined and analyzed using their OCT B-scans (optical cross-section images). Thus, the impact of the biogas-generating process on the interior of the bioreactor was demonstrated and quantified, as well as the capability of OCT to perform such assessments. Therefore, future work may target OCT for in situ investigations of such bioreactors.
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- Adrian Cioabla
- Faculty of Mechanics, Polytechnic University of Timisoara, 1 Mihai Viteazu Ave., 300222 Timisoara, Romania
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- 3OM Optomechatronics Group, Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Str. Elena Dragoi No. 2, 310177 Arad, Romania
- Doctoral School, Polytechnic University of Timisoara, 1 Mihai Viteazu Ave., 300222 Timisoara, Romania
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- 3OM Optomechatronics Group, Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Str. Elena Dragoi No. 2, 310177 Arad, Romania
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- 3OM Optomechatronics Group, Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Str. Elena Dragoi No. 2, 310177 Arad, Romania
- Doctoral School, Polytechnic University of Timisoara, 1 Mihai Viteazu Ave., 300222 Timisoara, Romania
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- Applied Optics Group, School of Physics, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NR, UK
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- Applied Optics Group, School of Physics, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NR, UK
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- Applied Optics Group, School of Physics, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NR, UK
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Energy policies in the US and in the EU during the last decades have been focused on enhanced oil and gas recovery, including the so-called tertiary extraction or enhanced oil recovery (EOR), on one hand, and the development and implementation of renewable energy vectors, on the other, including biofuels as bioethanol (mainly in US and Brazil) and biodiesel (mainly in the EU) [...]
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