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Electrical current disrupts the electron transfer in defined consortia

Microbial Biotechnology
Improving methane production through electrical current application to anaerobic digesters has garnered interest in optimizing such microbial electrochemical technologies, with claims suggesting direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) at the cathode
Mon Oo Yee, Lars D. M. Ottosen, Amelia‐Elena Rotaru   +2 more
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Thermodynamic analysis of direct interspecies electron transfer in syntrophic methanogenesis based on the optimized energy distribution

, 2020
The aim of this study was to investigate the syntrophic methanogenesis from the perspective of energy transfer and competition. Effects of redox materials and redox potential on direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) were examined through ...
Du, Jin, Liu, Yu, Gu, Mengqi, Yin, Qidong, Wu, Guangxue   +4 more
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Integrating transcriptomic data with metabolic model unravels the electron transfer mechanisms of Methanosarcina barkeri

Water Research X
Methanogenic archaea, particularly Methanosarcina, are pivotal to the global carbon cycle and renewable energy production due to their versatile metabolic capabilities.
Wentao Tang, Sen Lin, Yangfan Deng, Gang Guo, Guanghao Chen, Tianwei Hao   +5 more
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Enhancing methane production from food waste fermentate using biochar: the added value of electrochemical testing in pre-selecting the most effective type of biochar

Biotechnology for Biofuels, 2017
Background Recent studies have suggested that addition of electrically conductive biochar particles is an effective strategy to improve the methanogenic conversion of waste organic substrates, by promoting syntrophic associations between acetogenic and ...
Carolina Cruz Viggi, Serena Simonetti, Enza Palma, Pamela Pagliaccia, Camilla Braguglia, Stefano Fazi, Silvia Baronti, Maria Assunta Navarra, Ida Pettiti, Christin Koch, Falk Harnisch, Federico Aulenta   +11 more
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Interspecies electron transfer stimulating approaches in anaerobic digestion process: recent advancements, challenges, and future perspectives

Environmental Systems Research
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a biological process of converting complex organic matter into biogas (methane) and digestate in the absence of oxygen by microorganisms.
Wondimu Elias Worajo, Fekadu Fanjana Falta, Selemon Thomas Fakana   +2 more
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Conductive Fe3O4 nanoparticles accelerate syntrophic methane production from butyrate oxidation in two different lake sediments

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016
Syntrophic methanogenesis is an essential link in the global carbon cycle and a key bioprocess for the disposal of organic waste and production of biogas.
Jianchao Zhang, Yahai Lu
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Extracellular electron transfer based methylotrophic methanogenesis in paddy soil and the prevalent Methanomassiliicoccus

Communications Earth & Environment
The biogenic methane contributes obviously to global warming, and direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) driven CO2 reductive methanogenesis is one of the important methanogenic pathways.
Lingyan Li, Xuping Tian, Xuemeng Wang, Chuan Chen, Qi Zhou, Lei Qi, Jie Li, Kai Xue, Fangjie Zhao, Yanfen Wang, Xiuzhu Dong   +10 more
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Improving anaerobic digestion via direct interspecies electron transfer requires development of suitable characterization methods

, 2019
Recent anaerobic digestion studies commonly attribute performance improvements (e.g. increased methane production, enhanced process stability, reduced startup times) to direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET), even though only indirect evidence of ...
Raskin, Lutgarde, Van Steendam, Caroline, Smets, Ilse, Skerlos, Steven   +3 more
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Enhancing Biomethane Yield and Metabolic Pathways in Kitchen Waste Anaerobic Digestion Through Microbial Electrolysis Cell Integration

Energies
This study developed a system (MEC-AD) by integrating a single-chamber microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) with anaerobic digestion (AD), aiming to enhance the conversion efficiency of kitchen waste (KW) into biomethane and optimize metabolic pathways. The
Qing Zhao, Heran Wang, Rufei Liu, Hairong Yuan, Xiujin Li   +4 more
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Magnetite Triggering Enhanced Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer: A Scavenger for the Blockage of Electron Transfer in Anaerobic Digestion of High-Solids Sewage Sludge

, 2018
At present, high-solids anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge has drawn great attention due to the superiority of its small land area footprint and low energy consumption.
Xiaohu Dai (602218), Dong Zhang (73558), Tao Wang (12008), Bin Dong (147019), Lingling Dai (847289)   +4 more
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