Biomethane: The energy storage, platform chemical and greenhouse gas mitigation target.
Results in three areas of anaerobic microbiology in which methane formation and utilization plays central part are reviewed. a.) Bio-methane formation by reduction of carbon dioxide in the power-to-gas process and the various possibilities of improvement of the process is a very intensively studied topic recently. From the numerous potential methods of exploiting methane of biological origin two aspects are discussed in detail. b.) Methane can serve as a platform chemical in various chemical and biochemical synthetic processes. Particular emphasis is put on the biochemical conversion pathways involving methanotrophs and their methane monooxygenase-catalyzed reactions leading to various small molecules and polymeric materials such as extracellular polysaccharides, polyhydroxyalkanoates and proteins. c.) The third area covered concerns methane-consuming reactions and methane emission mitigation. These investigations comprise the anaerobic microbiology of ruminants and approaches to diminishing methane emissions from ruminant animals.
Department of Biotechnology, University of Szeged, Közép Fasor 52, Szeged 6726, Hungary. Electronic address: bagi.zoltan@bio.u-szeged.hu.
Zoltán
Z
Bagi
Department of Biotechnology, University of Szeged, Közép Fasor 52, Szeged 6726, Hungary. Electronic address: acs.norbert@bio-u-szeged.hu.
Norbert
N
Ács
Department of Biotechnology, University of Szeged, Közép Fasor 52, Szeged 6726, Hungary. Electronic address: bojti.tamas@bio.u-szeged.hu.
Tamás
T
Böjti
Department of Biotechnology, University of Szeged, Közép Fasor 52, Szeged 6726, Hungary. Electronic address: kakuk.balazs@stud.u-szeged.hu.
Balázs
B
Kakuk
Department of Biotechnology, University of Szeged, Közép Fasor 52, Szeged 6726, Hungary; Institute of Biophysics, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Temesvári Krt. 62, Szeged 6726, Hungary. Electronic address: rakhely.gabor@bio.u-szeged.hu.
Gábor
G
Rákhely
Department of Biotechnology, University of Szeged, Közép Fasor 52, Szeged 6726, Hungary. Electronic address: strang.orsolya@bio.u-szeged.hu.
Orsolya
O
Strang
Department of Biotechnology, University of Szeged, Közép Fasor 52, Szeged 6726, Hungary. Electronic address: szuhaj@bio.u-szeged.hu.
Márk
M
Szuhaj
Department of Biotechnology, University of Szeged, Közép Fasor 52, Szeged 6726, Hungary. Electronic address: wirth@bio.u-szeged.hu.
Roland
R
Wirth
Department of Biotechnology, University of Szeged, Közép Fasor 52, Szeged 6726, Hungary; Institute of Biophysics, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Temesvári Krt. 62, Szeged 6726, Hungary; Department of Oral Biology and Experimental Dental Research, University of Szeged, Tisza L. Krt. 64, Szeged 6720, Hungary. Electronic address: kovacs.kornel@bio.u-szeged.hu.
Kornél L
KL
Kovács
D000693:Anaerobiosis; D000818:Animals; D001669:Biochemical Phenomena; D056804:Biofuels; D001711:Biotransformation; D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D005285:Fermentation; D000074382:Greenhouse Gases; D006801:Humans; D008697:Methane / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D010944:Plants / Q000378:metabolism; D059205:Renewable Energy
D056804:Biofuels; D000074382:Greenhouse Gases; D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D008697:Methane
Biomethane; Hydrogen; Hydrogenotrophic methanogens; Methane mitigation; Methanotroph; Power-to-gas; Rumen microbiology