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Bioaugmentation of thermophilic lignocellulose degrading bacteria accelerate the composting process of lignocellulosic materials

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In the present work, the influence of feedstock composition (high and low lignin percentage) and addition of lignocellulose degrading bacterial isolates on final compost quality has been studied. The evaluation is based on respiration activity, temperature, nitrate and humic acid concentrations, elemental analysis, C/N ratio, pH, humic acids’ functional groups, and FTIR monitoring over the composting period. The results exhibited that the highest lignin feedstocks lead to higher respiration activity, spectral absorbance, total acidity, C/N ratio, nitrate concentration, pH, and temperature than low lignin feedstocks. Conversely, low lignin feedstocks generated higher humic acid and carboxylic group’s density than high lignin feedstocks. At the end of the composting period, FTIR absorption, oxygen, sulfur, and O/C ratio increased in all treatments while carbon, hydrogen, C/N, and H/C ratios decreased. Bacterial consortium addition to low/high lignin feedstocks contribute to a prolonged thermophilic phase for one and two days, respectively, shortening the compost production duration by about four and eight weeks, respectively.

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    Arash Hemati, Nasser Aliasgharzad & Behnam Asgari Lajayer

  2. Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

    Reza Khakvar

  3. Department of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

    Nasser Delangiz

  4. Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS, Université de Paris, 75005, Paris, France

    Eric D. van Hullebusch

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Arash Hemati: Conducted experimental verification, analyzed the data, and wrote the first draft and revised the manuscript.

Nasser Aliasgharzad and Reza Khakvar: Contributed to the research idea and designed the study.

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Hemati, A., Aliasgharzad, N., Khakvar, R. et al. Bioaugmentation of thermophilic lignocellulose degrading bacteria accelerate the composting process of lignocellulosic materials. Biomass Conv. Bioref. 13, 15887–15901 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-021-02238-7

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