African Journal of
Environmental Science and Technology

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1996-0786
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJEST
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 1128

Full Length Research Paper

Effect of gas recirculation intensity and various temperatures on hydrogenotrophic methanogens activity in chemostat fermentation using H2/CO2 as substrate

Olga Yolande Ako1* and Yutaka Kitamura
1UFR des Sciences et Gestion de l'Environment, University of Nangui Abrogoua, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. 2Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan.  
Email: [email protected]

  •  Received: 02 October 2014
  •  Accepted: 24 February 2015
  •  Published: 20 May 2015

References

Ako OY, Kitamura Y, Intabon K, Satake T (2008). Steady state characteristics of acclimated hydrogenotrophic methanogens on inorganic substrate in continuous chemostat reactors. Bioresour. Technol. 99 (14): 6305-6310.
Crossref
 
Angenent LT,Karim K, Al-Dahhan MH, Wrenn BA, Domiguez-Espinosa R (2004). Production of bioenergy and biochemical from industrial and agricultural wastewater. Trends Biotechnol. 22(9):477-485.
Crossref
 
APHA (2005). Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater (APHA, AWWA and WEF), 21st Ed., Washington,DC.
 
Bouallagui H, Haouri O, Touhami Y, Ben Cheick R, Marouani L, Hamdi M (2004). Effect of temperature on the performance of anaerobic tubular reactor treating fruit and vegetable waste. Process Biochem. 39(12):2143-2128.
Crossref
 
Chae KJ, Jang A, Yim SK, Kim IS (2008). The effects of digestion temperature and temperature shock on the biogas yields from the mesophilic anaerobic digestion of swine manure. Bioresour. Technol. 99(1):1-6.
Crossref
 
Dahiya S, Venkata Mohan S, Joseph J (2015). High rate biomethanation technology for solids waste management and rapid biogas production: an emphasis on reactor design parameters.Bioresour Technol. In press
Crossref
 
Kaparaju P, Inmaculada B, Lars E, Irini A (2008). "Effects of mixing on methane production during thermophilic anaerobic digestion of manure: Lab-scale and pilot-scale studies". Bioresour. Technol. 99(11):4919-4928.
Crossref
 
Karim K, Hoffmann R, Klasson KT, Al-Dahhan MH (2005b). "Anaerobic digestion of animal waste: effect of mode of mixing". Water Res.39 (15):3597-3606.
Crossref
 
Karim K, Klasson KT, Hoffmann R, Drescher SR, DePaoli DW, Al-Dahhan MH (2005a). "Anaerobic digestion of animal waste: effect of mixing". Bioresour. Technol. 96 (14):1607-1612.
Crossref
 
Kim SH, Han SK, Shin HS (2004). Feasibility of biohydrogen production by anaerobic co-digestion of food waste and sewage sludge. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 29(15):1607-1616.
Crossref
 
King SM, Barrington S, Guiot SR (2011). In-storage psychrophilic anaerobic digestion of swine manure: Acclimation of the microbial community. Biomass Bioenergy 35 (8):3719-3726.
Crossref
 
Stroot PG, McMahon KD, Mackie RI, Raskin L (2001). Anaerobic codigestion of municipal solids waste and biosolids under various mixing conditions. Water Res. 35(7):1804-1816.
Crossref
 
Torsten T, Cavicchioli R (2000). Effect of temperature on stability and activity of elongation factor 2 proteins from antarctic and thermophilic methanogens. J. Bacteriol. 182(5):1328-1332.
Crossref
 
Vavilin VA, Angelidaki I (2005). "Anaerobic degradation of solid material: importance of initiation centers for methanogenesis, mixing intensity and 2D distributed model". Biotechnol. Bioeng. 89 (1):113-122.
Crossref
 
Yang Y, Zhang Z, Lu J, Maekawa T (2004). Continuous methane fermentation and the production of vitamin B12 in fixed- bed reactor packed with loofah. Bioresour. Technol. 92(3):285-290.
Crossref
 
Zhang Z, Quan T, Li P, Zhang Y, Sugiura N, Maekawa T (2004). Study on methane fermentation and production of vitamin B12 from alcohol waste slurry. Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol. 115: -1033-1039.