Energy efficiency: Importance of indigenous microorganisms contained in the municipal solid wastes

2016 was an extraordinary year for renewable energy, as it had the largest global capacity additions seen to date. However, challenges remain, particularly beyond the power sector. Overcoming these challenges means pursuing goals on development and optimization of strategies focused in causing an increase in bioenergy usage. Considering the seriousness of the challenge this paper has been developed. In the present study, indigenous microorganisms gathered from municipal solid waste will be analysed at to find out the role such organisms have on an anaerobic digester and its performance, with the aim of producing biogas in order for it to be used as electricity or treated to produce high quality fuel. The presence of such anaerobic microbiota can help avoid the two most tragic situations of an anaerobic digestion plant: overloading and washing out. The information of the present paper would have to be considered in future researchers about pre-treatments because most novelty studies are focused on hard pre-treatment to destroy microorganisms in the substrate (to increase the biogas production). In the present paper, it is underlined that the destruction of the microbiota in the substrate could produce adverse effects in the performance in the reactor. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.