Gas-chromatographic observation of the reduction of carbon dioxide to methane during anaerobic digestion
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ABSTRACT GAS chromatography has been applied to the analysis of gases formed during methane fermentations1. It appeared to us that this technique could be used successfully for observing the
mechanism of methane formation. Knowledge of the biochemistry of methane-producing bacteria is still superficial in many respects. Early observations of Söhngen2 showed the possibility of
the fermentation of a mixture of carbon dioxide and hydrogen by enrichment cultures of some anaerobic bacteria. These micro-organisms could couple the oxidation of hydrogen with the
reduction of carbon dioxide to methane. More recently, Barker3 had discussed the mechanisms by which carbon dioxide could be the precursor of methane. Access through your institution Buy or
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Public Health Engineering Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Durham, King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne J. CHMIELOWSKI & PETER C. G. ISAAC Authors * J.
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Dioxide to Methane during Anaerobic Digestion. _Nature_ 183, 1120–1121 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831120a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 18 April 1959 * DOI:
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