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A metabolic model for targeted volatile fatty acids production by cofermentation of carbohydrates and proteins

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Anaerobic mixed-culture fermentations are interesting processes to valorise organic wastes by converting them to volatile fatty acids. One of the main issues is that certain operational conditions (e.g. pH or different substrate concentrations) can vary significantly the product spectrum. So far, there are no tools that take into the account the characteristic features of cofermentation processes, which hinders the possibility of designing processes that use real wastes as substrates. In this work a mathematical model was developed for the production of volatile fatty acids from organic wastes with a high concentration of carbohydrates and proteins. The model reproduces satisfactorily experimental results and is also able of giving mechanistic insight into the interactions between carbohydrates and proteins that explain the observed changes in the product spectrum. We envision this model as the core of an early-stage design tool for anaerobic cofermentation processes, as shown in this work with different examples.
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Waste Management and Disposal, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, General Medicine, Environmental Engineering, Bioengineering, Mixed culture cofermentation, Volatile fatty acids production, Metabolic modelling, Process design, ANAEROBIC-DIGESTION, ACIDOGENIC FERMENTATION, GLUCOSE, COMPLEX

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Regueira López, Alberte, et al. “A Metabolic Model for Targeted Volatile Fatty Acids Production by Cofermentation of Carbohydrates and Proteins.” BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY, vol. 298, 2020, doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122535.
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Regueira López, A., Bevilacqua, R., Lema, J. M., Carballa, M., & Mauricio-Iglesias, M. (2020). A metabolic model for targeted volatile fatty acids production by cofermentation of carbohydrates and proteins. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY, 298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122535
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Regueira López, Alberte, Riccardo Bevilacqua, Juan Manuel Lema, Marta Carballa, and Miguel Mauricio-Iglesias. 2020. “A Metabolic Model for Targeted Volatile Fatty Acids Production by Cofermentation of Carbohydrates and Proteins.” BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122535.
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Regueira López, Alberte, Riccardo Bevilacqua, Juan Manuel Lema, Marta Carballa, and Miguel Mauricio-Iglesias. 2020. “A Metabolic Model for Targeted Volatile Fatty Acids Production by Cofermentation of Carbohydrates and Proteins.” BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 298. doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122535.
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Regueira López A, Bevilacqua R, Lema JM, Carballa M, Mauricio-Iglesias M. A metabolic model for targeted volatile fatty acids production by cofermentation of carbohydrates and proteins. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY. 2020;298.
IEEE
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A. Regueira López, R. Bevilacqua, J. M. Lema, M. Carballa, and M. Mauricio-Iglesias, “A metabolic model for targeted volatile fatty acids production by cofermentation of carbohydrates and proteins,” BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY, vol. 298, 2020.
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  keywords     = {{Waste Management and Disposal,Renewable Energy,Sustainability and the Environment,General Medicine,Environmental Engineering,Bioengineering,Mixed culture cofermentation,Volatile fatty acids production,Metabolic modelling,Process design,ANAEROBIC-DIGESTION,ACIDOGENIC FERMENTATION,GLUCOSE,COMPLEX}},
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