Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 343, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.126098
Keywords
Fats oils and grease (FOG); Low-temperature anaerobic digestion; Methanogenesis; Microbial community assembly; Null modelling
Funding
- European Union's Hori-zon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Joint Doctorate (EJD) in Advanced Biological Waste-To-Energy Technologies (ABWET) [643071]
- Enterprise Ireland Technology Centres Programme [TC/2014/0016]
- Science Foundation Ireland [14/IA/2371, 16/RC/3889]
- NERC Independent Research Fellowship [NE/L011956/1]
- EPSRC [EP/P029329/1, EP/V030515/1]
- Science Foundation Ireland Career Development Award [17/CDA/4658]
- Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) [17/CDA/4658, 14/IA/2371] Funding Source: Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
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Distinct microbial assemblages evolve in anaerobic digestion (AD) reactors to drive sequential conversions of organics to methane, with granular, biofilm and planktonic assemblages differentiated by diversity, structure, and assembly mechanisms. LCFA loading rates and HRT are significant drivers shaping microbial community dynamics and assembly, with active roles of Methanosaeta and Syntrophaceae-affiliated taxa in syntrophic LCFA bioconversion at short HRTs and 20 degrees C.
Distinct microbial assemblages evolve in anaerobic digestion (AD) reactors to drive sequential conversions of organics to methane. The spatio-temporal development of three such assemblages (granules, biofilms, plank -tonic) derived from the same inoculum was studied in replicated bioreactors treating long-chain fatty acids (LCFA)-rich wastewater at 20 degrees C at hydraulic retention times (HRTs) of 12-72 h. We found granular, biofilm and planktonic assemblages differentiated by diversity, structure, and assembly mechanisms; demonstrating a spatial compartmentalisation of the microbiomes from the initial community reservoir. Our analysis linked abundant Methanosaeta and Syntrophaceae-affiliated taxa (Syntrophus and uncultured) to their putative, active roles in syntrophic LCFA bioconversion. LCFA loading rates (stearate, palmitate), and HRT, were significant drivers shaping microbial community dynamics and assembly. This study of the archaea and syntrophic bacteria actively valorising LCFAs at short HRTs and 20 degrees C will help uncover the microbiology underpinning anaerobic bio-conversions of fats, oil and grease.
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