Foam formation in a downstream digester of a cascade running full-scale biogas plant: Influence of fat, oil and grease addition and abundance of the filamentous bacterium Microthrix parvicella

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 153, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-7

  Lienen, T ^a   Kleybocker A ^a   Verstraete, W ^b   Wurdemann H ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Foam; FOG addition; Full scale biogas plant; Microthrix parvicella threshold abundance

Indexed keywords

BIOGAS; FOAMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE SLUDGE;

BIOGAS PLANTS; FILAMENTOUS BACTERIA; GENETIC FINGERPRINTING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MICROTHRIX PARVICELLA; MONITORING PERIODS; THRESHOLD ABUNDANCE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

PULP DIGESTERS;

BACTERIAL RNA; BIOGAS; OIL; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

ABUNDANCE; BIOGAS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIGESTIBILITY; FAT; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA EXTRACTION; FOAM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROTHRIX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEMPERATURE; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS MICROTHRIX PARVICELLA;

DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DGGE; FAT, OIL AND GREASE; FOAM; FOG; FOG ADDITION; FULL-SCALE BIOGAS PLANT; LCFA; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACIDS; MICROTHRIX PARVICELLA THRESHOLD ABUNDANCE; QPCR; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOTAL SOLIDS; TS; VFA; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS; VOLATILE SOLIDS; VS; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WWTP;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANAEROBIOSIS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOFOULING; BIOFUELS; BIOREACTORS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; OILS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84890100575     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2013.11.017     Document Type: Article

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