Enhancing chain-elongating microbiomes: Sequential fungi-bacteria cooperation for efficient food waste upgrading using endogenous electron donors

X Li, X Lei, Z Guo, Z Yan, X Gu, X Xu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
The upgrading of organic waste such as food waste (FW) into medium-chain carboxylates
(MCC) is within a bio-based circular economy concept. An efficient chain elongation (CE) …

Co-degradation enhances the fermentation of degradable components instead of refractory organics in lignite and rice straw

Y Shen, J Cheng, X Feng, H Guo, R Liu… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Co-degradation of coal and straw can significantly increase methane production compared
to coal and straw degradation alone, but little is known about the effect of co-degradation on …

Performance and mechanism of iron-carbon enhancing medium chain fatty acids production from waste sludge

X Li, P Yang, M Liu, C Zhang - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2024 - Elsevier
A novel iron-carbon technique to enhance the production of medium-chain carboxylates
(MCCs) from waste activated sludge (WAS) during anaerobic fermentation was proposed in …

Intermittent Heat Shocks Can Reduce Methanogenesis and Increase Generation of Longer-Chain Volatile Fatty Acids in Anaerobic Bioreactors

H Ding, DF Call - ACS ES&T Engineering, 2024 - ACS Publications
Production of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) from organic wastes in anaerobic bioreactors can be
increased if methanogenesis is inhibited. Pretreating bioreactor inocula at elevated …

Metabolic interactions in chain elongation system with granular activated carbon for medium-chain carboxylates production

P Yang, X Li, H Zhuang, M Liu, S He - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2024 - Elsevier
The chain elongation bioprocess for the production of medium-chain carboxylates (MCCs) is
promising for resource recovery from organic wastes. In this study, the microbiome …

Microbial dynamics with the introduction of brewery waste in a long‐term chain elongation process for caproate production

P Yang, X Li, L Leng - Journal of Chemical Technology & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND The long‐term cultivation of sewage sludge in a chain elongation process
was performed, and brewery wastewater (BW) was gradually introduced as ethanol source …