Thermophilic co-digestion of organic fraction of municipal solid wastes with FOG wastes from a sewage treatment plant: Reactor performance and microbial community monitoring

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4734-4741

  Martín González, Lucia ^a   Castro, Rita ^b   Pereira, M Alcina ^b   Alves, M Madalena ^b   Font, Xavier ^a   Vicent, Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

FOG wastes; Microbial diversity; OFMSW; PCR DGGE; Thermophilic anaerobic co digestion

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC CO-DIGESTION; ARCHAEAL; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BEFORE AND AFTER; BIOGAS PRODUCTION; CO-SUBSTRATE; CODIGESTION; MESOPHILIC; METHANE POTENTIAL; METHANE YIELD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL STRUCTURES; OFMSW; OIL AND GREASE; ORGANIC FRACTION OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTES; PCR-DGGE; REACTOR PERFORMANCE; THERMOPHILIC CONDITIONS; WHOLE PROCESS;

BIOGAS; CLONING; FOG; METHANE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION;

BIOGAS; FAT; METHANE; OIL; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; CLONE; DIGESTIBILITY; ELECTROKINESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBSTRATE;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING ECOLOGY; GENE SEQUENCE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LANDFILL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANIC WASTE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTOR OPERATION; RNA GENE; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SLUDGE DIGESTION; SOURCE COLLECTED ORGANIC FRACTION OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; THERMOPHILIC ARCHAEON; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BIOFUELS; BIOREACTORS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA PRIMERS; FATS; METHANE; OILS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFUSE DISPOSAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79951944194     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.01.060     Document Type: Article

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