Anaerobic Digestion, Rumen Fermentation, and Biofuel Production
This community focuses on converting organic waste, agricultural residues, and animal feed into energy and chemical products, primarily through microbial fermentation and enzymatic processes.
The work centers on optimizing anaerobic digestion to produce methane and biogas from diverse feedstocks, including dairy manure, sewage sludge, food waste, and lignocellulosic biomass such as sugarcane bagasse, rice straw, and corn stover. A significant portion of the research addresses rumen fermentation in dairy cows, specifically targeting methane emissions and nitrogen utilization. Other key areas include the enzymatic hydrolysis of biomass for bioethanol production, the role of microbial communities in electron transfer, and the degradation of organic pollutants. Recurring themes involve pretreatment methods to enhance substrate accessibility, the management of volatile fatty acids, and the application of biocatalysts like laccase and manganese peroxidase for environmental remediation and biomass breakdown.
The largest share of this community's output is found in hydrogen research, accounting for 0.7% of all hydrogen-related papers, followed by nitrogen at 0.6% and manganese at 0.9%. Hydrogen also contributes the highest raw paper count within this group, with 3,469 papers, while nitrogen follows with 2,959 papers.
The community comprises 16,609 papers, publishing most frequently in Bioresource Technology, the Journal of Dairy Science, and the Journal of Animal Science.
Recent work continues to focus on optimizing anaerobic digestion using biochar and machine learning, valorizing sugarcane bagasse, and exploring nitrogen-carbohydrate synchronization in ruminant nutrition. Additional recent studies address the microbial dehalogenation of organic pollutants and the use of light-driven biohybrids for carbon dioxide conversion via microbial electrosynthesis.