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Bioaugmented Mixed Culture by Clostridium aceticum to Manipulate Volatile Fatty Acids Composition From the Fermentation of Cheese Production Wastewater
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), Chemical Engineering, Resource recovery.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4046-1592
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), Chemical Engineering, Resource recovery.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8170-379x
2021 (English)In: Frontiers in Microbiology, E-ISSN 1664-302X, Vol. 12, article id 658494Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Production of targeted volatile fatty acid (VFA) composition by fermentation is a promising approach for upstream and post-stream VFA applications. In the current study, the bioaugmented mixed microbial culture by Clostridium aceticum was used to produce an acetic acid dominant VFA mixture. For this purpose, anaerobic sequencing batch reactors (bioaugmented and control) were operated under pH 10 and fed by cheese processing wastewater. The efficiency and stability of the bioaugmentation strategy were monitored using the production and composition of VFA, the quantity of C. aceticum (by qPCR), and bacterial community profile (16S rRNA Illumina Sequencing). The bioaugmented mixed culture significantly increased acetic acid concentration in the VFA mixture (from 1170 +/- 18 to 122 +/- 9 mgCOD/L) compared to the control reactor. Furthermore, the total VFA production (from 1254 +/- 11 to 5493 +/- 36 mgCOD/L) was also enhanced. Nevertheless, the bioaugmentation could not shift the propionic acid dominancy in the VFA mixture. The most significant effect of bioaugmentation on the bacterial community profile was seen in the relative abundance of the Thermoanaerobacterales Family III. Incertae sedis, its relative abundance increased simultaneously with the gene copy number of C. aceticum during bioaugmentation. These results suggest that there might be a syntropy between species of Thermoanaerobacterales Family III. Incertae sedis and C. aceticum. The cycle analysis showed that 6 h (instead of 24 h) was adequate retention time to achieve the same acetic acid and total VFA production efficiency. Biobased acetic acid production is widely applicable and economically competitive with petroleum-based production, and this study has the potential to enable a new approach as produced acetic acid dominant VFA can replace external carbon sources for different processes (such as denitrification) in WWTPs. In this way, the higher treatment efficiency for WWTPs can be obtained by recovered substrate from the waste streams that promote a circular economy approach.

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Frontiers Media SA , 2021. Vol. 12, article id 658494
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volatile fatty acid, acetic acid, Clostridium aceticum, bioaugmentation, bacterial community profile, qPCR, cheese production wastewater, fermentation
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-306351DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.658494ISI: 000724297300001PubMedID: 34539589Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85115158703OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-306351DiVA, id: diva2:1620188
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Available from: 2021-12-15 Created: 2021-12-15 Last updated: 2024-01-17Bibliographically approved

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