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Evaluation of relationship between biogas production and microbial communities in anaerobic co-digestion

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Anaerobic co-digestion (ACD) has been used to treat various organic wastes because nutrient balance in the feed can be improved by mixing different organics. Until now, the correlation between characteristics of feedstocks and biogas production by ACD has been studied mainly in terms of biochemical methane potential. It has been rarely tried to understand the co-digestion process in terms of microbial community development. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of batch anaerobic digestion (AD) reactors fed with activated sludge (AS), swine slurry (SS) and food waste (FW) individually or in a mixture of the three wastes (FW: SS : AS=1 : 3 : 2). The AD reactors fed with the mixture showed better performance than those fed with a single substrate. Microbial communities of the batch AD reactors fed with a single substrate or the mixture were analyzed and the result was related to the performance of the AD reactors.

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  1. Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Seoul, 163 Seoulsiripdae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02504, Korea

    Dan Li, Minsoo Kim & Hyunook Kim

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University, 222 Wangshimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, 04763, Korea

    Hyunjin Kim, Okkyoung Choi & Byoung-In Sang

  3. Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Taiwan University, Tai Pei, Republic of China

    Pen Chi Chiang

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Li, D., Kim, M., Kim, H. et al. Evaluation of relationship between biogas production and microbial communities in anaerobic co-digestion. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 35, 179–186 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-017-0246-3

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