The performance of biological reactors for producing bioenergy is closely related to
microbial activity and diversity. Understanding the relationship between process operating …

The search for new energy sources is becoming an acute topic of research, given the
serious concern of society regarding climate change and the need for attaining a higher …

Anaerobic digestion technology is the biological treatment of organic waste and wastewater
without input of external electron acceptors (oxygen), offering the potential to reduce …

Various biomass sources, such as wood and other plant materials, animal wastes, food and
other industry wastes, household wastes, sludge varieties, marine biomass, peat and other …

Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a widespread technology for treating high strength waste
streams, such as livestock manure. AD has some limitations: i) high nutrient concentrations …

Conventional anaerobic digestion based bioconversion processes produce biogas and
have as such been widely applied for the production of renewable energy so far. An …

2.1 Background One of the key factors in the success of microbial-mediated processes is an
adequate understanding of process microbiology, more specifically the study of microscopic …

Waste treatment and the simultaneous production of energy have gained great interest in
the world. In the last decades, scientific efforts have focused largely on improving and …

The accelerating energy demands of the increasing global population and industrialization
has become a matter of great concern all over the globe. In the present scenario, the world is …

Anaerobic digestion is being considered as a sustainable technology to treat organic wastes
to reduce contamination and emission of greenhouse gasses and at the same time produce …