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  • Article
  • Open Access

High organic loading is known to destabilize anaerobic digestion (AD). This study compared bioaugmentation and pH adjustment under increasing organic loading rate (OLR: 2.0, 4.0 and 6.0 gVS L−1 d−1), focusing on the responses of microbial...

  • Review
  • Open Access
293 Citations
16,522 Views
18 Pages

3 January 2018

Anaerobic digestion (AD) is an effective biological treatment for stabilizing organic compounds in waste/wastewater and in simultaneously producing biogas. However, it is often limited by the slow reaction rates of different microorganisms’ syntrophi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,079 Views
17 Pages

Promoting or Inhibiting: New Insights into the Role of Formate in Syntrophic Propionate Metabolism

  • Yanlin Li,
  • Guanjing Cai,
  • Xiaofang Pan,
  • Nan Lv,
  • Lin Feng,
  • Gefu Zhu,
  • Zunjing Lv and
  • Zhilong Ye

10 December 2024

Anaerobic digestion is a critical technology for pollution control, resource capacity enhancement, and sludge management, necessitating improvements in its efficiency. Formate serves as an electron carrier in syntrophic oxidation of volatile fatty ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,008 Views
15 Pages

Application of Polyacrylamide Flocculant for Stabilization of Anaerobic Digestion under Conditions of Excessive Accumulation of Volatile Fatty Acids

  • Anna A. Nikitina,
  • Artem A. Ermoshin,
  • Elena A. Zhuravleva,
  • Andrey A. Kovalev,
  • Dmitriy A. Kovalev,
  • Vladimir Panchenko and
  • Yuri V. Litti

24 December 2020

Excessive accumulation of volatile fatty acids (VFA) is one of the major factors destabilizing methanogenic digestion of organic wastes in anaerobic bioreactors. Existing methods of stabilization of this process are mostly expensive and labor-intensi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,119 Views
11 Pages

12 December 2019

Disturbances in anaerobic digestion (AD) negatively impact the overall reactor performance. These adverse effects have been widely investigated for methane generation. However, AD recently appeared as a potential technology to obtain volatile fatty a...