BACKGROUND The recalcitrant cell walls of microalgae may limit their digestibility for bioenergy production. Considering that cellulose contributes to the cell wall recalcitrance of the microalgae Chlorella vulgaris, this study investigated bioaugmentation with a cellulolytic and hydrogenogenic bacterium, Clostridium thermocellum, at different inoculum ratios as a possible method to improve CH4...

25 Cryospheric changes in northern high latitudes are linked to significant greenhouse gas flux 26 to the atmosphere, for example, methane that originates from organic matter decomposition 27 in thermokarst lakes. The set of pathways that link methane production in sediments, via 28 oxidation in the lake system, to the flux of residual methane to the atmosphere is complex 29 and exhibits tempor...

The objective of the present experiment was to quantify the gas production parameters, methane emission and microbial nitrogen production of a conventional total mixed ration including corn silage, alfalfa hay, wheat straw and concentrate (390, 110, 22 and 478 g/kg of diet DM, respectively) treated with different levels of Natuzyme® and pre-incubation time after enzyme administration. Two hundr...

Due to the recent increase of natural gas production in the U.S., utilizing natural gas for higher-value chemicals has become imperative. Direct methane aromatization (DMA) is a promising process used to convert methane to benzene, but it is limited by low conversion of methane and rapid catalyst deactivation by coking. Past work has shown that membrane separation of the hydrogen produced in th...

Communities of anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea (ANME) and sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) grow slowly, which limits the ability to perform physiological studies. High methane partial pressure was previously successfully applied to stimulate growth, but it is not clear how different ANME subtypes and associated SRB are affected by it. Here, we report on the growth of ANME-SRB in a membrane c...

22 Anaerobic methane oxidizing communities of archaea (ANME) and sulfate reducing bacteria 23 (SRB) grow slowly, which limits physiological studies. High methane partial pressure was 24 previously successfully applied to stimulate growth, but it is not clear how different ANME 25 subtypes and associated sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) are affected by it. Here, we report 26 growth of ANME/SRB in...

Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 1000e104 Adv Dairy Res ISSN: 2329-888X ADR, an open access journal Although water vapour is the largest and essential greenhouse gas inclusive of ozone in the stratosphere, the mitigation of anthropogenic six greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons and perfluorocarbons have been established as legally binding...

Methane emission factors are lacking from different livestock species in various production states fed varying diets. The objectives of the present study were to measure effects of physiological state, silage type, and supplemental NDF on DMI, DM digestibility (DMD), and methane emissions of lactating and dry dairy cows using two 4 × 4 Latin squares (5-wk periods) with four lactating (114 DIM ±...

Ruminant production is under increased public scrutiny in terms of the importance of cattle and other ruminants as major producers of the greenhouse gas methane. Methanogenesis is performed by methanogenic archaea, a specialised group of microbes present in several anaerobic environments including the rumen. In the rumen, methanogens utilise predominantly H2 and CO2 as substrates to produce met...