Microbial community structure in a thermophilic aerobic digester used as a sludge pretreatment process for the mesophilic anaerobic and the enhancement of methane production
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- Title
- Microbial community structure in a thermophilic aerobic digester used as a sludge pretreatment process for the mesophilic anaerobic and the enhancement of methane production
- Authors
- Hyun-Min Jang; Sang-Kyu Park; Jeong-Hyub Ha; Park, JM
- Date Issued
- 2013-10
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER
- Abstract
- An effective two-stage sewage sludge digestion process, consisting of thermophilic aerobic digestion (TAD) followed by mesophilic anaerobic digestion (MAD), was developed for efficient sludge reduction and methane production. Using TAD as a biological pretreatment, the total volatile suspended solid reduction (VSSR) and methane production rate (MPR) in the MAD reactor were significantly improved. According to denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis, the results indicated that the dominant bacteria species such as Ureibacillus thermophiles and Bacterium thermus in TAD were major routes for enhancing soluble organic matter. TAD pretreatment using a relatively short SRT of 1 day showed highly increased soluble organic products and positively affected an increment of bacteria populations which performed interrelated microbial metabolisms with methanogenic species in the MAD; consequently, a quantitative real-time PCR indicated greatly increased Methanosarcinales (acetate-utilizing methanogens) in the MAD, resulting in enhanced methane production. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
- Keywords
- Methane production; Thermophilic aerobic digestion (TAD); Mesophilic anaerobic digestion (MAD); Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE); Real-time PCR; WASTE-ACTIVATED-SLUDGE; SEWAGE-SLUDGE; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; SP-NOV.; SOLUBILIZATION; STABILIZATION; TEMPERATURE; BIOREACTORS; INHIBITION; REDUCTION
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/108000
- DOI
- 10.1016/J.BIORTECH.2013.01.094
- ISSN
- 0960-8524
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- Bioresource Technology, vol. 145, page. 80 - 89, 2013-10
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