Microbial community dynamics in replicate anaerobic digesters exposed sequentially to increasing organic loading rate, acidosis, and process recovery

Biotechnology for Biofuels

Philippe Delfosse⁴  Emile Benizri²  Thomas Udelhoven¹  Michael Klocke³  Martyna Marynowska⁴  Sébastien Lemaigre⁴  Magdalena Calusinska⁴  Xavier Goux² 

[1]Fachbereich VI- Raum- und Umweltwissenschaften, Umweltfernerkundung & Geoinformatik, Universität Trier, Trier, 54286, Germany

[2]Laboratoire Sols et Environnement, UMR 1120, INRA, 2 avenue de la Forêt de Haye, TSA 40602, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, 54518, France

[3]Department Bioengineering, Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam-Bornim, Max-Eyth-Allee 100, Potsdam, 14469, Germany

[4]Environmental Research and Innovation (ERIN) Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), 41 rue du Brill, Belvaux, 4422, Luxembourg

关键词: Microbial ecology;    High-throughput 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing;    16S rRNA gene-based T-RFLP;    Process recovery;    Volatile fatty acids intoxication;    Anaerobic digestion;   

Others  :  1228158
DOI  :  10.1186/s13068-015-0309-9

 received in 2015-05-12, accepted in 2015-08-07,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

Volatile fatty acid intoxication (acidosis), a common process failure recorded in anaerobic reactors, leads to drastic losses in methane production. Unfortunately, little is known about the microbial mechanisms underlining acidosis and the potential to recover the process. In this study, triplicate mesophilic anaerobic reactors of 100 L were exposed to acidosis resulting from an excessive feeding with sugar beet pulp and were compared to a steady-state reactor.

Results

Stable operational conditions at the beginning of the experiment initially led to similar microbial populations in the four reactors, as revealed by 16S rRNA gene T-RFLP and high-throughput amplicon sequencing. Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes were the two dominant phyla, and although they were represented by a high number of operational taxonomic units, only a few were dominant. Once the environment became deterministic (selective pressure from an increased substrate feeding), microbial populations started to diverge between the overfed reactors. Interestingly, most of bacteria and archaea showed redundant functional adaptation to the changing environmental conditions. However, the dominant Bacteroidales were resistant to high volatile fatty acids content and low pH. The severe acidosis did not eradicate archaea and a clear shift in archaeal populations from acetotrophic to hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis occurred in the overfed reactors. After 11 days of severe acidosis (pH 5.2 ± 0.4), the process was quickly recovered (restoration of the biogas production with methane content above 50 %) in the overfed reactors, by adjusting the pH to around 7 using NaOH and NaHCO ₃ .

Conclusions

In this study we show that once the replicate reactors are confronted with sub-optimal conditions, their microbial populations start to evolve differentially. Furthermore the alterations of commonly used microbial parameters to monitor the process, such as richness, evenness and diversity indices were unsuccessful to predict the process failure. At the same time, we tentatively propose the replacement of the dominant Methanosaeta sp. in this case by Methanoculleus sp., to be a potential warning indicator of acidosis.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Goux et al.

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