Polyhydroxyalkanoates in waste activated sludge enhances anaerobic methane production through improving biochemical methane potential instead of hydrolysis rate

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Wang, Qilin ^a,b   Sun, Jing ^c   Zhang, Chang ^d   Xie, Guo Jun ^b   Zhou, Xu ^b   Qian, Jin ^e   Yang, Guojing ^d   Zeng, Guangming ^d   Liu, Yiqi ^a   Wang, Dongbo ^b,d  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHANE; POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID; SEWAGE;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; HYDROLYSIS; SEWAGE;

ANAEROBIOSIS; HYDROLYSIS; METHANE; POLYHYDROXYALKANOATES; SEWAGE;

EID: 84955512727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep19713     Document Type: Article

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