title: [A novel quantitative approach to study dynamic anaerobic process at micro scale].
abstract: Anaerobic digestion is attracting more and more interests because of its advantages such as low cost and recovery of clean energy etc. In order to overcome the drawbacks of the existed methods to study the dynamic anaerobic process, a novel microscopical quantitative approach at the granule level was developed combining both the microdevice and the quantitative image analysis techniques. This experiment displayed the process and characteristics of the gas production at static state for the first time and the results indicated that the method was of satisfactory repeatability. The gas production process at static state could be divided into three stages including rapid linear increasing stage, decelerated increasing stage and slow linear increasing stage. The rapid linear increasing stage was long and the biogas rate was high under high initial organic loading rate. The results showed that it was feasible to make the anaerobic process to be carried out in the microdevice; furthermore this novel method was reliable and could clearly display the dynamic process of the anaerobic reaction at the micro scale. The results are helpful to understand the anaerobic process.
authors: State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. zhangzl2012@126.com
authors: Zhong-Liang
authors: ZL
authors: Zhang
authors: Jing
authors: J
authors: Wu
authors: Jian-Kai
authors: JK
authors: Jiang
authors: Jie
authors: J
authors: Jiang
authors: Huai-Zhi
authors: HZ
authors: Li
mesh_terms: D001421:Bacteria, Anaerobic / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D056804:Biofuels / Q000032:analysis*; D019149:Bioreactors / Q000382:microbiology; D004867:Equipment Design; D008697:Methane / Q000378:metabolism*; D055616:Microtechnology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012722:Sewage / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D056804:Biofuels; D012722:Sewage; D008697:Methane