This is an excellent quick and dirty test that can be used daily. One drop of India ink is added to one drop of the biomass. Everything will be dark except for the polymer generated by the biomass. A normal biomass will have some bright areas relative to the size of the floc structure...
Several successful efforts have been made to use certain industrial food wastes as growth medium for the MC producer organisms, which is not only a cheap way but also works as a basin for environmental cleaning [51]. Thin stillage (TS) is a wastewater from rice wine distillery rich in ...
Here we used a hyperthermophilic composting (HTC) as a model system to study the role of mesophilic and thermophilic bacteria and their viruses in the decomposition of organic matter. HTC is a waste treatment technology used in degradation of the organic fraction of municipal or agricultural solid ...
33. USEPA. Methods for Chemical Analysis of Water and Wastes. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH, EPA-600-/4- 79-020 (1983). 34. APHA. Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, Ed. 20th, APHA, AWWA, WEF, 1023 (1998). 35. EPAC (Environmental ...
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Soils contain the largest stock of organic carbon (C) in terrestrial ecosystems and changes in soil C stocks may significantly affect atmospheric CO2. A significant part of soil C is present in cultivated soils that occupy about 35 % of the global l