Microbial energy conversion : the proceedings of a seminar /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Pergamon Press,
[1977]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Other Pergamon Titles of Interest
- Copyright
- Preface
- Introduction to Recommendations
- Working Group I: Biomass
- Publisher Summary
- Working Group II: Recycling of Wastes
- Publisher Summary
- 1 Aerobic Microbial Processes
- 2 Photosynthetic Algal Processes
- 3 Photosynthetic Bacterial Processes
- 4 Anaerobic Fermentation to Products other than Methane
- Working Group III: Methane Production
- Publisher Summary
- Working Group IV: Photoproduction of Hydrogen/Purple Membrane
- Publisher Summary
- I Single stage biophotolysis.
- II Hydrogen production
- Photosynthetic bacteria
- III H2-formation from organic matter by bacteria in the dark
- IV Purple membrane
- Working Group V: Microbial Recovery of Hydrocarbons
- Publisher Summary
- Working Group VI: Prices of important substrates and economics of chemical interconversions
- Publisher Summary
- Working Group I
- Working Group II
- Working Group III
- Working Group IV
- Working Group V
- Working Group VI
- Primary Production of Biomass
- Chapter 8: Biomass Production of Intensively Managed Forest Ecosystems
- Abstract
- Chapter 9: Biomass Production in Terrestrial Ecosystems
- Abstract.
- Introduction
- Definitions of basic terms
- Ecological considerations
- Forest biomass inventory
- Biomass productivity
- Biomass availability
- Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 10: Primary production of biomass in freshwater with respect to microbial energy conversion
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Pelagic primary production and phytoplankton yields
- Potential primary production
- Efficiency and photosynthetic light energy conversion
- Technological energy balance
- Biotechnological considerations and conclusions
- Appendix
- Chapter 11: Organic production potential of artificial upwelling marine culture.
- Abstract
- Introduction
- The energy resource
- The organic production potential in artificial upwelling marine culture
- Primary production
- Secondary production
- Comparison between "Artificial Upwelling" marine culture and agriculture and animal husbandry
- Conclusion
- Chapter 12: Comparison of primary products with respect to energy conversion
- Abstract
- Solar insolation and photosynthetic efficiency
- Improving the photosynthetic process
- Primary productivity
- Conversion of biomass to energy
- Conclusions
- Methane formation and cellulose digestion.
- Chapter 13: Acetate, a Key Intermediate in Methanogenesis
- Abstract
- Chapter 14: The Microbiology of Anaerobic Degradation and Methanogenesis with Special Reference to Sewage
- Abstract
- Summary
- Chapter 15: Energy Recovery from Sanitary Landfills - A Review
- Abstract
- Municipal solid waste characterization
- The sanitary landfill
- Gas generation in sanitary landfills
- Gas recovery
- Gas utilization and preparation
- Current experience with landfill gas recovery
- Sheldon-Arleta (City of Los Angeles) Landfill (Los Angeles, 1976)
- Shoreline Regional Park (Mountain View, California) (USEPA, 1975).