Anaerobic Biotechnology

Environmental protection and resource recovery are two crucial issues facing our society in the 21st century. Anaerobic biotechnology has become widely accepted by the wastewater industry as the better alternative to the more conventional but costly aerobic process and tens of thousands of full-scale facilities using this technology have been installed worldwide in the past two decades. Anaerobic Biotechnology is the sequel to the well-received Environmental Anaerobic Technology: Applications and New Developments (2010) and compiles developments over the past five years. This volume contains contributions from 48 renowned experts from across the world, including Gatze Lettinga, laureate of the 2007 Tyler Prize and the 2009 Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize, and Perry McCarty, whose pioneering work laid the foundations for today's anaerobic biotechnology. This book is ideal for engineers and scientists working in the field, as well as decision-makers on energy and environmental policies. Contents:Fundamentals:Anaerobic Digestion: About Beauty and Consolation (Willy Verstraete and Jo De Vrieze)Syntrophy in Anaerobic Digestion (Yoichi Kamagata)Microbial Community Involved in Anaerobic Purified Terephthalic Acid Treatment Process (Takashi Narihiro, Masaru K Nobu, Ran Mei and Wen-Tso Liu)State-of-the-Art Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation (Anammox) Technology (Xiaoming Ji, Yu-Tzu Huang, Qian Wang, Giin Yu Amy Tan, Jih-Gaw Lin and Po-Heng Lee)Application of Metagenomics in Environmental Anaerobic Technology (Feng Ju, Herbert H P Fang and Tong Zhang)Transformations and Impacts of Ammonia and Hydrogen Sulfide in Anaerobic Reactors (Yu-You Li and Wei Qiao)Modelling Anaerobic Digestion Processes (Damien J Batstone and Jorge Rodríguez)Applications:Microbial Fuel Cells: From Fundamentals to Wastewater Treatment Applications (Ningshengjie Gao, Keaton Larson Lesnik, Hakan Bermek and Hong Liu)Development and Applications of Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor in Japan (Yu-You Li, Takuro Kobayashi and Shinichiro Wakahara)Anaerobic Fluidized Bed Membrane Bioreactor for the Treatment of Domestic Wastewater (Perry L McCarty, Jeonghwan Kim, Chungheon Shin, Po-Heng Lee and Jaeho Bae)Development and Application of Anaerobic Technology for the Treatment of Chemical Effluents in Taiwan (Sheng-Shung Cheng, Teh-Ming Liang, Ryninta Anatrya and Wen-Tso Liu)Anaerobic Sewage Treatment in Latin America (Carlos A L Chernicharo, Jules B Van Lier, Adalberto Noyola and Thiago B Ribeiro)Applications and the Development of Anaerobic Technology in China (K J Wang, C P Wang, A J Wang, H Gong, B C Dong, H Xu, L W Deng and C Li)Challenges Towards Sustainability:Development of Anaerobic Digestion of Animal Waste: From Laboratory, Research and Commercial Farms to A Value-Added New Product (Jason C H Shih)Role of Anaerobic Digestion in Increasing the Energy Efficiency and Energy Output of Sugar Cane Distilleries (Adrianus van Haandel and Jules B van Lier)With AnWT and AnDi Systems Towards a More Sustainable Society (Gatze Lettinga) Readership: Academic research & professionals. Keywords:Anaerobic;Biotechnology;Pollution Control;Resource;Recovery;Wastewater;Waste;Treatment;Digestion;Food;Chemical;Agricultural;Beverage;Biogas;Biofuel;Green Energy;Digestion;Sustainability;Biogas;Hydrogen;Methane;Production;Metagenome;Metagenomics;Modeling;Anammox;UASB;EGSB;Microbial Fuel Cell;MFC;Membrane Bioreactor;MBR;Syntroph;Stoichiometry;Equilibrium;Buffer;Ammonia;Sulfide;Fluidized Bed;Application;Development;Fundamental;Analysis;Development;Technology;Holistic;China;Brazil;Japan;Latin America;Asia;Taiwan;Distillery;Farm;Sugar Cane

Anaerobic biotechnology is a cost-effective and sustainable means of treating waste and wastewaters that couples treatment processes with the reclamation of useful by-products and renewable biofuels. This means of treating municipal, agricultural, and industrial wastes allows waste products to be converted to value-added products such as biofuels, biofertilizers, and other chemicals. Anaerobic Biotechnology for Bioenergy Production: Principles and Applications provides the reader with basic principles of anaerobic processes alongside practical uses of anaerobic biotechnology options. This book will be a valuable reference to any professional currently considering or working with anaerobic biotechnology options.

Environmental protection and resource recovery are two crucial issues facing our society in the 21st century. Anaerobic biotechnology has become widely accepted by the wastewater industry as the better alternative to the more conventional but costly aerobic process and tens of thousands of full-scale facilities using this technology have been installed worldwide in the past two decades. Anaerobic Biotechnology is the sequel to the well-received Environmental Anaerobic Technology: Applications and New Developments (2010) and compiles developments over the past five years. This volume contains contributions from 48 renowned experts from across the world, including Gatze Lettinga, laureate of the 2007 Tyler Prize and the 2009 Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize, and Perry McCarty, whose pioneering work laid the foundations for today's anaerobic biotechnology. This book is ideal for engineers and scientists working in the field, as well as decision-makers on energy and environmental policies.

The second edition of Anaerobic Biotechnology for Bioenergy Production is a major revision and restructuring of the first edition, including both new developments in the field since publication of the first edition, new chapters, and updates to existing material. Now comprised of 21 chapters, the content is freshly arranged to provide continuity and increased readability. Parts I and II cover the basic concepts and applications of anaerobic biotechnology, followed by new chapters focusing on recent developments and concepts which have gained greater importance since publication of the first edition. Examples and case studies are used throughout the book emphasizing the latest developments in the field, demonstrating the applications of anaerobic biotechnology to cope with emerging issues of sustainability and climate change. Anaerobic Biotechnology for Bioenergy Production: Principles and Applications, Second Edition is a stand-alone book on anaerobic biotechnology for bioenergy production, and will be a valuable tool for researchers, instructors, decision-makers, practicing professionals, and others interested in the bioenergy field. The book can also serve as a textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students, as well as an important reference for consulting engineers.

There have been many significant microbiological, biochemical and technological advances made in the understanding and implementation of anaerobic digestion processes with respect to industrial and domestic wastewater treatment. Elucida tion of the mechanisms of anaerobic degradation has permitted a greater control over the biological parameters of waste conversion and the technical advances achieved have reduced the time and land area requirements and increased the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of the various processes presently in use. By product recovery in the form of utilisable methane gas has become increasingly feasible, while the development of new and superior anaerobic reactor designs with increased tolerance to toxic and shock loadings of concentrated effiuents has established a potential for treating many extremely recalcitrant industrial wastestreams. The major anaerobic bioreactor systems and their applications and limitations are examined here, together with microbiological and biochemical aspects of anaerobic wastewater treatment processes. London, June 1986 S. M. Stronach T. Rudd J. N. Lester v Table of Contents 1 The Biochemistry of Anaerobic Digestion 1 1. 1 Kinetics of Substrate Utilisation and Bacterial Growth 3 1. 1. 1 COD Fluxes and Mean Carbon Oxidation State 3 1. 1. 2 Bacterial Growth and Biokinetics 4 1. 1. 2. 1 Growth and Single Substrate Kinetics 4 1. 1. 2. 2 Multisubstrate Systems . 8 1. 2 Kinetics and Biochemistry of Hydrolysis 8 1. 3 Kinetics and Biochemistry of Fermentation and J1-0xidation . 11 1.

A deeper insight into the complex processes involved in this field, covering the biological, chemical and engineering fundamentals needed to further develop effective methodologies. The book devotes detailed chapters to each of the four main areas of environmental biotechnology -- wastewater treatment, soil treatment, solid waste treatment, and waste gas treatment -- dealing with both the microbiological and process engineering aspects. The result is the combined knowledge contained in the extremely successful volumes 11a through 11c of the "Biotechnology" series in a handy and compact form.

This book provides comprehensive insights into the biotechnological process of converting organic matter into biogas, which is an essential renewable energy resource for addressing challenges related to fossil fuel depletion and environmental pollution. It includes six chapters that cover a spectrum of topics, including approaches to biogas upgrading, the optimization of biogas production through examination, mathematical modeling, and applied calculations, the application of bacteriophages to enhance anaerobic digestion, and more.