環境バイオテクノロジー学会誌
Online ISSN : 2436-5041
Print ISSN : 1347-1856
24 巻, 1 号
選択された号の論文の17件中1~17を表示しています
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特集総説:「遺伝子組換え微生物の新しい利用形態“カルタヘナ第一種使用”の可能性を探る」
特集総説:「炭素循環社会の実現に貢献する多様な微生物とその応用」
特集総説:「データサイエンスと環境バイオテクノロジーの接点」
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  • Masahiro Koya, Saki Koyakumaru, Toshinari Maeda
    2024 年24 巻1 号 p. 97-103
    発行日: 2024年
    公開日: 2024/09/04
    ジャーナル フリー

    In this study, we examined the anaerobic incubation of waste-activated sludge (WAS) under thermophilic conditions. First, we reconfirmed CO2 sequestration using WAS without any enrichment process at different temperatures under mixed gases (CO2:H2 = 1:4). We observed that the methanogens, which were previously enriched at 37°C, displayed strong CO2 sequestration at an early incubation time. Although CO2 sequestration at 60°C showed the largest impact after 6 days, no methane production was observed at each thermophilic condition within 4 days. Therefore, we enriched methanogens using a novel WAS protocol for 10 days under nitrogen gas under thermophilic conditions. These methanogens displayed better CO2 sequestration than the original strain at 37°C. Moreover, methane production by the thermophilic methanogens was due to the hydrogenotrophic pathway rather than the acetoclastic one because low methanogenic activity from acetate was observed. Microbial community structure analysis showed that the Methanothermobacter genus belonging to hydrogenotrophic methanogens was predominant among the thermophilic enriched methanogens at 60°C. Taken together, the thermophilic methanogens can be a useful tool to sequestrate CO2 efficiently.

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