Biological CO2 conversion to acetate in subsurface coal-sand formation using a high-pressure reactor system

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Ohtomo, Yoko ^a   Ijiri, Akira ^a   Ikegawa, Yojiro ^a,b   Tsutsumi, Masazumi ^a   Imachi, Hiroyuki ^a   Uramoto, Go Ichiro ^a   Hoshino, Tatsuhiko ^a   Morono, Yuki ^a   Sakai, Sanae ^a   Saito, Yumi ^a   Tanikawa, Wataru ^a   Hirose, Takehiro ^a   Inagaki, Fumio ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Bituminous coal; Coal bed methane; Geobio reactor system; Homo acetogenesis; Methanogen

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; CARBON DIOXIDE; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS CONVERSION; BIOREACTOR DESIGN; CELL COUNT; DNA EXTRACTION; ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOBIO REACTOR SYSTEM; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; METHANOGEN; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84892152544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00361     Document Type: Article

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