Journal article
Effect of anaerobiosis on indigenous microorganisms in blackwater with fish offal as co-substrate
Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark1
Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark2
Center for BioProcess Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark3
Arctic Technology Centre, ARTEK, Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark4
Masdar Institute of Science and Technology5
Norwegian University of Life Sciences6
The aim of this study was to compare the effect of mesophilic anaerobic digestion with aerobic storage on the survival of selected indigenous microorganisms and microbial groups in blackwater, including the effect of addition of Greenlandic Halibut and shrimp offal. The methane yield of the different substrate mixtures was determined in batch experiments to study possible correlation between methanogenic activity in the anaerobic digesters and reduction of indigenous microorganisms in the blackwater.
By the end of the experiments a recovery study was conducted to determine possible injury of the microorganisms. In both anaerobic and aerobic samples, survival of Escherichia coli was better in the presence of Greenlandic Halibut offal when compared to samples containing blackwater only and blackwater and shrimp offal, possibly due to more available carbon in the samples containing Greenlandic Halibut offal.
Reduction of faecal streptococci was large under both anaerobic and aerobic conditions, and the results indicated a complete removal of faecal streptococci in the anaerobic samples containing blackwater and a mixture of blackwater and shrimp offal after 17 and 31 days, respectively. Amoxicillin resistant bacteria were reduced in the anaerobic samples in the beginning of the study but increased towards the end of it.
The opposite pattern was observed in the aerobic samples, with a growth in the beginning followed by a reduction. During the anaerobic digestion tetracycline resistant bacteria showed the least reduction in the mixture of blackwater and shrimp offal, which had the lowest methane yield while the highest reduction was observed in the mixture of blackwater and Greenlandic Halibut, where the highest methane yield was measured Reduction of coliphages was larger under anaerobic conditions.
Addition of fish offal had no effect on survival of coliphages. The results of the recovery study indicated that a fraction of the E. coli in the aerobic blackwater sample and of the faecal streptococci in both the anaerobic and aerobic samples containing blackwater and Greenlandic Halibut were injured only, and thus able to resuscitate during recovery.
Language: | English |
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Year: | 2014 |
Pages: | 1-9 |
ISSN: | 18792448 and 00431354 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.watres.2014.05.038 |
ORCIDs: | 0000-0001-6067-5032 and Jensen, Pernille Erland |