- Title
- Increased methane production in cyanobacteria and methanogenic microbe co-cultures
- Creator
- Yeung, Tracey; Kwan, Matthew; Adler, Lewis; Mills, Toby J.; Neilan, Brett A.; Conibeer, Gavin; Patterson, Robert
- Relation
- Bioresource Technology Vol. 243, Issue November 2017, p. 686-692
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2017.06.126
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- A novel light-to-bioenergy system produced 3.5 times the baseline methane output using a co-culture of cyanobacteria (Oscillatoria sp.) and a methanogenic microbial community. Analysis of micronutrients in the system during the growth phase indicated that cobalt, iron, nickel and zinc were not appreciably consumed. The stable consumption and return of macronutrients calcium and magnesium were also observed. Essential macronutrients nitrogen, in the form of nitrate, and phosphorus showed no cycling during the growth phase and were depleted at rates of 0.35 mg/L/day and 0.40 µg/L/day, respectively. Biofilm formation increased the resilience of biomass to bacterial degradation in an anaerobic digester, as shown by viability assays of cyanobacterial biofilms in the co-culture.
- Subject
- bioenergy; biofilms; nutrient cycling; methanogenesis
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1353941
- Identifier
- uon:31161
- Identifier
- ISSN:0960-8524
- Rights
- © 2017. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Language
- eng
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