Biogas and its opportunities—A review

PG Kougias, I Angelidaki - Frontiers of Environmental Science & …, 2018 - Springer
Biogas production is a well-established technology primarily for the generation of renewable
energy and also for the valorization of organic residues. Biogas is the end product of a …

Anaerobic digestion of food waste: A review focusing on process stability

L Li, X Peng, X Wang, D Wu - Bioresource Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Food waste (FW) is rich in biomass energy, and increasing numbers of national programs
are being established to recover energy from FW using anaerobic digestion (AD). However …

Metagenomic analysis and functional characterization of the biogas microbiome using high throughput shotgun sequencing and a novel binning strategy

S Campanaro, L Treu, PG Kougias… - Biotechnology for …, 2016 - Springer
Background Biogas production is an economically attractive technology that has gained
momentum worldwide over the past years. Biogas is produced by a biologically mediated …

The future agricultural biogas plant in Germany: A vision

S Theuerl, C Herrmann, M Heiermann, P Grundmann… - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
After nearly two decades of subsidized and energy crop-oriented development, agricultural
biogas production in Germany is standing at a crossroads. Fundamental challenges need to …

Microbial population dynamics in urban organic waste anaerobic co-digestion with mixed sludge during a change in feedstock composition and different hydraulic …

T Fitamo, L Treu, A Boldrin, C Sartori, I Angelidaki… - Water research, 2017 - Elsevier
Microbial communities play an essential role in the biochemical pathways of anaerobic
digestion processes. The correlations between microorganisms' relative abundance and …

The active microbial community more accurately reflects the anaerobic digestion process: 16S rRNA (gene) sequencing as a predictive tool

J De Vrieze, AJ Pinto, WT Sloan, UZ Ijaz - Microbiome, 2018 - Springer
Background Amplicon sequencing methods targeting the 16S rRNA gene have been used
extensively to investigate microbial community composition and dynamics in anaerobic …

Bioinformatics analysis of metagenomics data of biogas-producing microbial communities in anaerobic digesters: A review

L Zhang, KC Loh, JW Lim, J Zhang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Complex microbial communities in anaerobic digestion (AD) system play a vital role in the
production of biogas. An in-depth understanding of the microbial compositions …

Deterministic assembly and diversity gradient altered the biofilm community performances of bioreactors

Z Zhang, Y Deng, K Feng, W Cai, S Li… - … science & technology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Community assembly process (determinism vs stochasticity) determines the composition
and diversity of a microbial community, and then shapes its functions. Understanding this …

Biogas production and microbial community properties during anaerobic digestion of corn stover at different temperatures

CM Liu, AC Wachemo, H Tong, SH Shi, L Zhang… - Bioresource …, 2018 - Elsevier
Temperature has different effects on anaerobic digestion (AD) of various biomasses, which
could bring out changes in microbial communities. The relationship between microbial …

Deeper insight into the structure of the anaerobic digestion microbial community; the biogas microbiome database is expanded with 157 new genomes

L Treu, PG Kougias, S Campanaro, I Bassani… - Bioresource …, 2016 - Elsevier
This research aimed to better characterize the biogas microbiome by means of high
throughput metagenomic sequencing and to elucidate the core microbial consortium …