Methane production from lignite through the combined effects of exogenous aerobic and anaerobic microflora

B Wang, C Tai, L Wu, L Chen, JM Liu, B Hu… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
To find more effective microflora for the pretreatment and bioconversion of coal to methane,
the combined effects of exogenous aerobic and anaerobic bacteria were studied. The …

Actinobacteria may influence biological methane generation in coal seams

Y Li, Y Zhang, S Xue, B Liu - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
Microorganisms are the core drivers of coal biogeochemistry and are closely related to
biological coalbed methane. However, the Actinobacterial taxa in coals and their roles in the …

Microbial communities are sensitive indicators for freshwater sediment copper contamination

B Sutcliffe, GC Hose, AJ Harford, DJ Midgley… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic activities, such as mining and agriculture, have resulted in many freshwater
systems having elevated concentrations of copper. Despite the prevalence of this …

Enhancing biogenic methane generation in coalbed methane reservoirs–Core flooding experiments on coals at in-situ conditions

N Lupton, LD Connell, D Heryanto, R Sander… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Stimulation of microbial methanogenesis on intact coal under in-situ conditions is
demonstrated in a series of 18 anaerobic core flooding experiments. The experiments used …

The Coal Seam Microbiome (CSMB) reference set, a lingua franca for the microbial coal-to-methane community

SHW Vick, P Greenfield, N Tran-Dinh, SG Tetu… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Microbial generation of methane from organic matter in coal represents an opportunity to
improve environmental and economic outcomes of coal seam gas production. This has …

Composition and dynamics of bacterial communities during flotation in a coal preparation plant

X Wang, D Meng, J Li, Z Lu, Z Zhang, C Zhang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Numerous studies of biological reagents in the past have confirmed the great influence of
bacteria on flotation. In this study, high-throughput sequencing was used to characterize the …

Who eats what? Unravelling microbial conversion of coal to methane

SHW Vick, S Gong, S Sestak, TJ Vergara… - FEMS microbiology …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Microbial communities in subsurface coal seams are responsible for the conversion of coal
organic matter to methane. This process has important implications for both energy …

Microbial community succession between coal matrix and culture solution in a simulated methanogenic system with lignite

H He, D Zhan, F Chen, Z Huang, HZ Huang, AK Wang… - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
The enhancement of coalbed methane generation by microorganisms has raised global
interests in the passing two decades. Methane production with coal involves many different …

New insights into the coal-associated methane architect: the ancient archaebacteria

D Mukherjee, VA Selvi, J Ganguly, RE Masto - Archives of Microbiology, 2024 - Springer
Exploration and marketable exploitation of coalbed methane (CBM) as cleaner fuel has
been started globally. In addition, incidence of methane in coal basins is an imperative …

Diverse fungal lineages in subtropical ponds are altered by sediment-bound copper

B Sutcliffe, AA Chariton, AJ Harford, GC Hose… - Fungal ecology, 2018 - Elsevier
Ponds represent a black box for fungal ecology. Compared to terrestrial environments, the
fungal ecology of aquatic environments is rarely studied, and the few published studies have …