TY - JOUR
T1 - Importance of the methanogenic archaea populations in anaerobic wastewater treatments
AU - Tabatabaei, Meisam
AU - Rahim, Raha Abdul
AU - Abdullah, Norhani
AU - Wright, André Denis G.
AU - Shirai, Yoshihito
AU - Sakai, Kenji
AU - Sulaiman, Alawi
AU - Hassan, Mohd Ali
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA), Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Malaysia (MOSTI) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
PY - 2010/8
Y1 - 2010/8
N2 - Methane derived from anaerobic treatment of organic wastes has a great potential to be an alternative fuel. Abundant biomass from various industries could be a source for biomethane production where combination of waste treatment and energy production would be an advantage. This article summarizes the importance of the microbial population, with a focus on the methanogenic archaea, on the anaerobic fermentative biomethane production from biomass. Types of major wastewaters that could be the source for biomethane generation such as brewery wastewater, palm oil mill effluent, dairy wastes, cheese whey and dairy wastewater, pulp and paper wastewaters and olive oil mill wastewaters in relevance to their dominant methanogenic population are fully discussed in this article.
AB - Methane derived from anaerobic treatment of organic wastes has a great potential to be an alternative fuel. Abundant biomass from various industries could be a source for biomethane production where combination of waste treatment and energy production would be an advantage. This article summarizes the importance of the microbial population, with a focus on the methanogenic archaea, on the anaerobic fermentative biomethane production from biomass. Types of major wastewaters that could be the source for biomethane generation such as brewery wastewater, palm oil mill effluent, dairy wastes, cheese whey and dairy wastewater, pulp and paper wastewaters and olive oil mill wastewaters in relevance to their dominant methanogenic population are fully discussed in this article.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.procbio.2010.05.017
DO - 10.1016/j.procbio.2010.05.017
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:77954089492
VL - 45
SP - 1214
EP - 1225
JO - Process Biochemistry
JF - Process Biochemistry
SN - 0032-9592
IS - 8
ER -