The roles of acetotrophic and hydrogenotrophic methanogens during anaerobic conversion of biomass to methane: a review

B Demirel, P Scherer - Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio …, 2008 - Springer
Among different conversion processes for biomass, biological anaerobic digestion is one of
the most economic ways to produce biogas from various biomass substrates. In addition to …

Kinetics of anaerobic treatment: a critical review

SG Pavlostathis, E Giraldo‐Gomez - Critical Reviews in …, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
The fundamentals of microbial kinetics and continuous culture models are presented. The
kinetics of the anaerobic treatment processes are reviewed recognizing that anaerobic …

Biogenic methane formation in marine and freshwater environments: CO2 reduction vs. acetate fermentation—isotope evidence

MJ Whiticar, E Faber, M Schoell - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1986 - Elsevier
Two primary methanogenic pathways can be distinguished using the carbon and hydrogen
stable isotope composition of the methane as a function of the coexisting carbon dioxide and …

Anaerobic digestion of swine manure: inhibition by ammonia

KH Hansen, I Angelidaki, BK Ahring - Water research, 1998 - Elsevier
A stable anaerobic degradation of swine manure with ammonia concentration of 6 gN/litre
was obtained in continuously stirred tank reactors with a hydraulic retention time of 15 days …

[PDF][PDF] The methanogenic bacteria

WB Whitman, TL Bowen, DR Boone - Prokaryotes, 2006 - academia.edu
The methanogenic bacteria are a large and diverse group that is united by three features: 1)
They form large quantities of methane as the major product of their energy metabolism. 2) …

Methanothrix soehngenii gen. nov. sp. nov., a new acetotrophic non-hydrogen-oxidizing methane bacterium

BA Huser, K Wuhrmann, AJB Zehnder - Archives of Microbiology, 1982 - Springer
A new genus of methanogenic bacteria is described, which was isolated from a mesophilic
sewage digester. It is most probably the filamentous bacterium, earlier referred to as …

A review on the bioenergetics of anaerobic microbial metabolism close to the thermodynamic limits and its implications for digestion applications

L Leng, P Yang, S Singh, H Zhuang, L Xu… - Bioresource …, 2018 - Elsevier
The exploration of the energetics of anaerobic digestion systems can reveal how
microorganisms cooperate efficiently for cell growth and methane production, especially …

Methanogens and the diversity of archaebacteria

WJ Jones, DP Nagle Jr, WB Whitman - Microbiological Reviews, 1987 - Am Soc Microbiol
The concept proposed by Woese and associates in the late 1970s reclassified all living
organisms into three primary kingdoms: eucaryotes, eubacteria, and archaebacteria (127 …

Non-aceticlastic methanogenesis from acetate: acetate oxidation by a thermophilic syntrophic coculture

SH Zinder, M Koch - Archives of Microbiology, 1984 - Springer
Methanogenesis from acetate by a rod-shaped enrichment culture grown at 60° C was found
to require the presence of two organisms rather than a single aceticlastic methanogen. A …

Diversity and taxonomy of methanogens

DR Boone, WB Whitman, P Rouvière - … : ecology, physiology, biochemistry …, 1993 - Springer
The production of methane is a ubiquitous, defining characteristic of methanogens. The
production of methane or any other hydrocarbon as a major catabolic product is unique to …