Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 272, Issue -, Pages 54-62Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.09.128
Keywords
Anaerobic digestion; Enriched culture; Methanogenic pathway; Ammonia-tolerant microbial community; Methanomassiliicoccus luminyensis
Funding
- Energinet.dk under the project framework ForskEL MicrobStopNH3-Innovative bioaugmentation strategies to tackle ammonia inhibition in anaerobic digestion process [2015-12327]
- China Scholarship Council
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Different mesophilic and thermophilic methanogenic consortia were acclimatised and enriched to extreme total ammonia (9.0 and 5.0 g NH4+-N L-1, respectively) and free ammonia (1.0 and 1.4 g NH3-NL-1, respectively) levels in this study. [2-C-14] acetate radioisotopic analyses showed the dominance of aceticlastic methanogenesis in all enriched consortia. According to 16S rRNA gene sequencing result, in mesophilic consortia, methylotrophic Methanomassiliicoccus luminyensis was predominant, followed by aceticlastic Methanosarcina soligelidi. A possible scenario explaining the dominance of M. luminyensis includes the use of methylamine produced by Tissierella spp. and biomass build-up by metabolizing acetate. Nevertheless, further studies are needed to pinpoint the exact metabolic pathway of M. luminyensis. In thermophilic consortia, aceticlastic Methanosarcina thermophila was the sole dominant methanogen. Overall, results derived from this study demonstrated the efficient biomethanation ability of these ammonia-tolerant methanogenic consortia, indicating a potential application of these consortia to solve ammonia toxicity problems in future full-scale reactors.
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