Medium Chain Carboxylates Production From Plant Biomass - Kinetic Study, Effect of an Enriched Microbiome and Techno-economic Analysis
Batch anaerobic fermentations of different silages were investigated using an inoculum from a biogas reactor. Additionally, the effect of a mixture of an enriched microbiome and digestate from a biogas reactor as inoculum on the lag phase, product yield, selectivity and productivity of MCCs from ensiled sugar beet leaves was studied in semi-continuous stirred tank reactors. The reactor communities were characterised by DNA-based 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing.