Efficient production of methane from artificial garbage waste by a cylindrical bioelectrochemical reactor containing carbon fiber textiles

AMB Express

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-9

  Sasaki, Daisuke ^a,c   Sasaki, Kengo ^b,c   Watanabe, Atsushi ^a   Morita, Masahiko ^a   Igarashi, Yasuo ^b   Ohmura, Naoya ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bioelectrochemical reactor; Carbon fiber textile; Supporting material; Thermophilic methanogenesis

Indexed keywords

BIOGAS; CARBON FIBER; METHANE;

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIOELECTROCHEMICAL REACTOR; BIOMASS FERMENTATION; BIOREACTOR; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA PURIFICATION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODE; METHANOGENESIS; METHANOGENIC ARCHAEON; ORGANIC LOADING RATE; ORGANIC MATTER PRODUCTION; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PERFORMANCE; PROKARYOTE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RENEWABLE ENERGY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TEXTILE; WASTE;

EID: 84876846560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21910855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2191-0855-3-17     Document Type: Article

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