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Thermophilic Anaerobic Oxidation of Butyrate in Axenic Culture
Normally, propionate and butyrate account for approximately 20% of the methane produced in an anaerobic digestion. The degradation of these volatile fatty acids involves at least two groups of bacteria, the ob...
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Methanogenesis from Propionate in Sludge and Enrichment Systems
The biological formation of methane from organic matter is a complex microbiological process involving many physiologically dependent relationships between and among a diversity of heterotrophic fermentative a...