Correlations between biochemical composition and biogas production during anaerobic digestion of microalgae and cyanobacteria isolated from different sources of Turkey

N A Perendeci; V Yılmaz; B Ertit Taştan; S Gökgöl; M Fardinpoor; A Namlı; J P Steyer

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2019.02.086

Correlations between biochemical composition and biogas production during anaerobic digestion of microalgae and cyanobacteria isolated from different sources of Turkey

Bioresour Technol. 2019 Jun:281:209-216. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.02.086. Epub 2019 Feb 20.

Authors

N A Perendeci¹, V Yılmaz², B Ertit Taştan³, S Gökgöl⁴, M Fardinpoor⁴, A Namlı⁵, J P Steyer⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey. Electronic address: aperendeci@akdeniz.edu.tr.
² Department of Environmental Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Artvin Çoruh University, Artvin, Turkey.
³ Department of Biology, Polatlı Faculty of Science & Arts, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey; Health Services Vocational School, Gazi University, 06830 Ankara, Turkey.
⁴ Department of Environmental Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.
⁵ Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Agricultural Faculty, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey.
⁶ LBE, Univ Montpellier, INRA, 102 Avenue des Etangs, 11100 Narbonne, France.

PMID: 30822642
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.02.086

Abstract

Twenty one species of microalgae and Cyanobacteria were isolated from different ecosystems in Turkey to investigate the relation between biochemical methane potential (BMP) and biochemical characterization. Since the highest dry weight (X), specific growth rate (µ) and maximum productivity (P_max) were obtained from the five species, identification of species and BMP tests with the composition analyzes were examined. BMP values were determined 308, 293, 242, 229 and 230 mLCH₄/gVS for Desertifilum tharense, Phormidium animale, Chlorella sp., Anabeana variabilis and Chlorophyta uncultured. The Pearson correlation and principal component analysis (PCA) were applied to extract and clarify the correlation between composition of species and their methane production. Pearson correlation shows that glucose, Kjeldahl nitrogen and chlorophyll are highly and positively correlated with BMP. PCA revealed that Chlorella sp., Chlorophyta uncultured and Desertifilum tharense were placed against Phormidium animale distinguished by its extreme and different profile because of Kjeldahl nitrogen and glucose content.

Keywords: Biochemical methane potential; Compositional analysis; Cyanobacteria; Microalgae; Statistical relation.

MeSH terms

Anaerobiosis
Biofuels*
Cyanobacteria / metabolism*
Methane / metabolism
Microalgae / metabolism*
Nitrogen / analysis
Turkey

Substances

Biofuels
Nitrogen
Methane