Enhanced Microbial Diversity Attained Under Short Retention and High Organic Loading Conditions Promotes High Volatile Fatty Acid Production Efficiency
Claudia Chao-Reyes, Rudolphus Antonius Timmers, Ahmed Mahdy, Silvia Greses, Cristina González-Fernández · 2025
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Description
Turning waste into useful acids takes time in a bioreactor, and long stays can let microbes eat the product. Claudia Chao-Reyes and four co-authors studied a faster setup in a 2025 paper. Their reactors ate carrot pulp and made volatile fatty acids, the building blocks for fuels and materials.
The team ran stirred tanks at a stay of 11 days instead of the usual 20 to 30, with a high feed rate and a mildly acidic setting. That mix turned about 45 percent of the feed into the target acids, and 84 percent of the feed was acidified. A richer mix of microbes grew under the fast, heavy feeding, and that mix kept output steady. The main acid made was acetic acid. The results suggest short stays can raise output without hurting the product mix.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Claudia Chao-Reyes, Rudolphus Antonius Timmers, Ahmed Mahdy, Silvia Greses, Cristina González-Fernández |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |