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2022
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Lena Wohlgemuth Pasi Rautio Bernd Ahrends Alexander Russ Lars Vesterdal Peter Waldner Volkmar Timmermann Nadine Eickenscheidt Alfred Fürst Martin Greve Peter Roskams Anne Thimonier Manuel Nicolas Anna Kowalska Morten Ingerslev Päivi Merilä Sue Benham Carmen Iacoban Günter Hoch Christine Alewell Martin JiskraAbstract
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Jane Uhd Jepsen James David Mervyn Speed Gunnar Austrheim Graciela Rusch Tanja Kofod Petersen Johan Asplund Jarle W. Bjerke Anne Elisabeth Bjune Nina Elisabeth Eide Ivar Herfindal Rolf Anker Ims Markus Fjellstad Israelsen Jutta Kapfer Anders Lorentzen Kolstad Jenni Nordén Brett Sandercock Jenny Stien Ole Einar Ellingbø Tveito Nigel YoccozAbstract
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Joyce Machado Nunes Romeiro Tron Haakon Eid Clara Antón-Fernández Annika Kangas Erik TrømborgAbstract
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Yeqing Li Xingru Yang Mingyu Zhu Liming Dong Hao Jiang Quan Xu Hongjun Zhou Yongming Han Lu Feng Chengfei LiAbstract
The amount of lignocellulose biomass and sludge is enormous, so it is of great significance to find a treatment combining the two substances. Co-hydrothermal carbonization (Co-HTC) has emerged as an efficient approach to dispose sludge. However, the improvement of sludge upgrading and combustion performance remains an important challenge during the Co-HTC of sludge. In this work, the Co-HTC of sludge and Fenton's reagent at different mixing ratios was proposed to achieve sludge reduction. Moreover, the addition of two kinds of biomass improved the adsorption capacity and combustion performance of hydrochars. When sludge and sawdust were the Co-HTC at the mass ratio of 1:3, the liquid phase Pb concentration decreased notably to 18.06%. Furthermore, the adsorption capacity of hydrochars was further improved by modification, which was in accordance with pseudo-second-order kinetics. Particularly, the hydrochars derived from the Co-HTC had higher heating value (HHV) and could be used as a clean fuel. This study proposed a new technical route of combining the HTC with Fenton's reagent and lignocellulose biomass, which could be served as a cleaner and eco-friendly treatment of sludge.
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Håvard SteinshamnAbstract
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Katherine Ann Gredvig NielsenAbstract
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Yeqing Li Zhangmu Jing Junting Pan Gang Luo Lu Feng Hao Jiang Hongjun Zhou Quan Xu Yanjuan Lu Hongbin LiuAbstract
Due to the diversity of microbiota and the high complexity of their interactions that mediate biogas production, a detailed understanding of the microbiota is essential for the overall stability and performance of the anaerobic digestion (AD) process. This study evaluated the microbial taxonomy, metabolism, function, and genetic differences in 14 full-scale biogas reactors and laboratory reactors operating under various conditions in China. This is the first known study of the microbial ecology of AD at food waste (FW) at a regional scale based on multi-omics (16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing, metagenomics, and proteomics). Temperature significantly affected the bacterial and archaeal community structure (R2 = 0.996, P = 0.001; R2 = 0.846, P < 0.002) and total inorganic carbon(TIC) slightly changed the microbial structure (R2 = 0.532, P = 0.005; R2 = 0.349, P = 0.016). The Wood-Ljungdahl coupled with hydrogenotrophic methanogenic pathways were dominant in the thermophilic reactors, where the acs, metF, cooA, mer, mch and ftr genes were 10.1-, 2.8-, 16.2-, 1.74-, 4.15-, 1.04-folds of the mesophilic reactors (P < 0.01). However, acetoclastic and methylotrophic methanogenesis was the primary pathway in the mesophilic reactors, where the ackA, pta, cdh and mta genes were 2.2-, 3.2-, 14.3-, 1.88-folds of the thermophilic group (P < 0.01). Finally, the Wilcoxon rank-sum test was applied to explain the cause of the temperature affecting AD microbial activities. The findings have deepened the understanding of the effect of temperature on AD microbial ecosystems and are expected to guide the construction and management of full-scale FW biogas plants.
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Inge Dox Tore Skrøppa Mieke Decoster Peter Prislan Aina Gascó Jožica Gričar Holger Lange Matteo CampioliAbstract
Historically, the autumn dynamics of deciduous forest trees have not been investigated in detail. However, autumn phenological events, like onset of loss of canopy greenness (OLCG), onset of foliar senescence (OFS) and cessation of wood growth (CWG), have an important impact on tree radial growth and the entire ecosystem's seasonal dynamics. Here, we monitored the leaf and wood phenological events of silver birch (Betula pendula) at four different sites in Ås, southeastern Norway: (a) a natural mature stand, (b) a plantation on former agricultural ground, (c) young natural trees, and (d) young trees in pots under different fertilization levels. The study took place over four consecutive years (from 2017 to 2020), with a particular focus on 2018, a year in which there was a severe summer drought, and the next year, 2019, which featured more normal conditions. First, we provided a description of birch phenology within its mid-north distributional. Second, we showed that drought advanced CWG by about 5 to 6 weeks and it delayed OLCG and OFS up to 30 days. Third, we observed an unexpected advance in OLCG in 2019 compared to 2018 (30 days) and 2020 (14 days). OFS presented similar dynamics as OLCG, whereas CWG was advanced only in 2018. These findings might indicate lag-effects of severe drought on the next year autumn leaf phenology but not on wood growth. On the other hand, the comparison between the natural stand and the plantation showed that, under drought conditions, wood growth is more sensitive to site fertility than autumn leaf phenology. In summary, our study elucidated the autumn dynamics of an important deciduous forest species in the northern temperate zone and showed unexpected impacts of a severely dry and warm summer on the current and next year leaf phenology.
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Ulrike BayrAbstract
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