Anaerobic co-digestion of shrimp chaff and lignocellulosic biomass via hydrolytic bacteria: Enhanced biogas production and microbial community
摘要
High chitin content in shrimp chaff (SC) is a rate-limiting factor during anaerobic digestion (AD) and requires specific chitinases for its degradation. The augmentation of chitinase-producing bacteria can potentially promote SC degradation and biogas production. This study proposed the anaerobic co-digestion of SC and corn straw (CS) supplemented with Serratia marcescens ATCC-8100 at different doses. Bioaugmentation with S. marcescens resulted in the highest biogas production (1.38-fold) in SC + CSB50% reactors with 89.97% volatile solids removal, followed by SC + CSB10% (1.28-fold), compared to the control. Dominant bacteria phyla were the Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, and Spirochaetota. Herbinix, a cellulose-degrading and acetate-producing bacterium, increased significantly (p ≤ 0.05) from 5.99% to 29.49% in the SC + CSB50% compared to the control. Sedimentibacter is an amino acid-utilizing bacterium, also enhanced from 4.00 to 8.09% with bioaugmentation. Methanobrevibacter. Methanosarcina, Bathyarchaeia, Candidatus_Methanogranum, and RumEn_M2 were the dominant archaeal genera. Methanobrevibacter, the predominant archaea that convert hydrogen to methane, increased from 42.515 to 68.60% in SC + CSB50%. Serratia marcescens bioaugmentation in the co-digestion improves the core degrading bacteria and archaea to enhance biogas production.
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