1. Four rumen-cannulated sheep were given a forage mixture (F) of chopped hay-ground, pelleted, dried grass (92:8, w/w) and two concentrate mixtures (C and S) of ground barley-ground hay-flaked maize (46:24:30 and 56:24:20, by wt respectively) in twenty-four hourly meals each day. Each of the diets was offered in successive periods of 16 d to give a feeding sequence F-S-C-S for one pair of shee...

The evidence for this scheme is : (a ) Washed suspensions of the organism grown on lactate attack, under anaerobic conditions, pyruvate, oxalacetate, L-malate, fumarate and succinate, but not D-tartrate. (b) Organisms grown on D-tartrate attack it and all the substances listed in (a ) except lactate. ( c ) Succinic acid is quantitatively decarboxylated to propionic acid and carbon dioxide. (d )...

PurposeThermodynamically, lactic acid and ethanol allow the best energy recovery among all common metabolites for methane production. The main objective of this work was to favor fermentation OFMSW better production.MethodsAs a first step, fermented using two different inocula: Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) anaerobic granular sludge from UASB wastewater treatment plant. naturally occurring m...

Among the most interesting problems in bacteriology are those that have to do with the mutual relations of the organisms under natura l conditions. Numerous notations of effects, both beneficial and detrimental, of on e organism upon another are to be found in bacteriological literature. The beneficial action on a specific organi s m of the associative growth of another organism is well illustr...

The fundamental investigations of Virtanen (1923, 1925), Virtanen and Karstrom (1931), and van Niel (1928) on the mechanism of glucose dissimilation by the propionic acid bacteria have led to the proposal that glucose after preliminary phosphorylation is converted into 2 molecules of the C) type. Virtanen upon theoretical considerations concludes that lactic acid is an intermediate product of t...

An economically sustainable process was developed for propionic acid production by fermentation of glycerol using Propionibacterium acidipropionici and potato juice, a by-product of starch processing, as a nitrogen/vitamin source. The fermentation was done as high-cell-density sequential batches with cell recycle. Propionic acid production and glycerol consumption rates were dependent on initia...

BACKGROUND Propionic acid is a widely used preservative and has been mainly formed by artificial synthesis or fermentation. In the case of natural products, the presence of propionic acid is viewed as a sign that an additive has been introduced for antimicrobial effects. METHODS In this work, the propionic acid that occurs in Scutellaria baicalensis roots was studied. A quantification method ...

This study revealed long-chain fatty acids(LCFAs) on propionic acid production by lipid anaerobic acidogenesis. Oleic and palmitic acid, the two most common LCFAs, were added into acidogenic system to evaluate LCFAs type concentration capacity. The results showed that when of oleic was 4 g/L, content volatile acids(VFAs) 1.3 times higher than blank group(propionic main product, >70%). In contra...

This study investigated waste activated sludge (WAS) and food (FW) co-fermentation in batch assays to produce carboxylic acids. Three mixtures (50%, 70% 90% WAS VS basis) were studied under different conditions: with without extra alkalinity, auto-hydrolysis pre-treatment. All tests carried out at 35 °C, pH adjustment external inoculum. Experimental results showed that yields, including volatil...