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Endurance of methanogenic archaea in anaerobic bioreactors treating oleate-base...

Methanogenic archaea are reported as very sensitive to lipids and long chain fatty acids (LCFA). Therefore, in conventional anaerobic processes, methane recovery during LCFA-rich wastewater treatment is usually low. By applying a start-up strategy, based on a sequence of step feeding and reaction cycles, an oleate-rich wastewater was efficiently treated at an organic loading rate of 21 kg COD m(-3) day(-1) (50 ...

Metaproteomics of anaerobic microbial communities degrading long-chain fatty acids

The anaerobic conversion of long-chain fatty acids (LCFA), and specifically the difference between the degradation of unsaturated- and saturated-LCFA, is not fully understood. In this work, syntrophic degradation of stearate (C18:0) and oleate (C18:1) was studied. A comparative metaproteomics approach, in which proteins were analyzed by LC-MS/MS, was combined with 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing. Saturated- and un...

Effect of long-chain fatty acids (LCFA) on the prevalence and viability of hydr...

Anaerobic degradation of long-chain fatty acids (LCFA) is essential for efficient biogas production from complex lipid-containing wastewaters. Methanogens play a key role in this process, but the general idea is that LCFA exert a toxic effect towards these microorganisms that impairs good methane recovery. In this work, the effect of saturated (palmitate, C16:0) and unsaturated (oleate, C18:1) LCFA towards hydr...

Comparison of vaginal microbiota fingerprints from healthy and bacterial vagino...

Bacterial Vaginosis (BV) is a common disease in women of reproductive age and is characterized by the substitution of Lactobacillus species,which are predominant in the normal vaginal microbiota,by rapidly proliferating anaerobic bacteria, particularly Gardnerellavaginalis. The aim of this study was to study microbial communities’ structure in the vaginal microbiota of healthy and BV-positive Portuguese women. ...

Continuous high rate anaerobic treatment of oleic acid based wastewater is poss...

Mineralization of a synthetic effluent containing 50% COD as oleic acid was achieved in a continuous anaerobic reactor at organic loading rates up to 21 kg COD m−3 day−1, HRT of 9 h, attaining 99% of COD removal efficiency and a methane yield higher than 70%. A maximum specific methane production rate of 1170 ± 170 mg COD-CH4 g VS−1 day−1 was measured during the reactor’s operation. A start-up strategy combinin...

Molecular profiling of microbial communities developed in high-rate anaerobic t...

Molecular profiling of microbial communities in anaerobic bioreactors treating ...

Anaerobic microbial community dynamics during discontinuous treatment of a synt...

Background and aims: Anaerobic digestion is an opportunity to generate energy from treatment of effluents with high lipid content. Nevertheless, long-chain fatty acids (LCFA) usually accumulate within reactors causing biomass washout and microbial inhibition. Discontinuous operation was suggested as the optimal strategy to treat LCFA-rich wastewater. In this work, microbial community dynamics was investigated, ...

Efficient methane production from lipid-rich wastewater in high-rate anaerobic ...

In this work, high rate anaerobic mineralization of a synthetic dairy effluent containing 50% COD as oleic acid was accomplished in two reactors operated in parallel. The anaerobic reactors were able to accommodate organic loading rates up to 21 kg COD m-3 day-1, HRT of 9 hours, attaining 99% of soluble COD removal efficiency and methane yield higher than 70%. Long chain fatty acids (LCFA) accumulated inside th...

Anaerobic digestion of oily wastewater as a valuable source of bioenergy

Lipids are a group of organic pollutants whose conversion into biogas has been considered very difficult. During the anaerobic treatment of lipid-rich wastewater this conversion generally decreases with the increase of the organic loading rate (OLR) applied, due to long chain fatty acids (LCFA) accumulation. To overcome this problem, correct equilibrium between LCFA accumulation and degradation should be assure...