Bacterial and Biochemical Properties of Newly Invented Aerobic, High-Temperature Compost

Yoshii, Takahiro; Moriya, Toshiyuki; Oshima, Tairo

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5899-5_4

Takahiro Yoshii⁴,
Toshiyuki Moriya⁴ &
Tairo Oshima⁴

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Abstract

Compost is the environmentally safe and the most economical way to treat organic waste. Due to heat emitted by fermentation processes, the compost inside is hot, and therefore, a variety of thermophilic bacteria thrive in compost. The thermophiles play an important role in the degradation of biopolymers in compost. This chapter deals with microbial community in a newly developed aerobic, high-temperature compost, where temperature reaches 100°C or even higher. Physical, chemical, biochemical, and microbial analyses of the high-temperature compost are presented. The technical problems associated with the biochemical and microbial analyses are also discussed.

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Yoshii, T., Moriya, T., Oshima, T. (2013). Bacterial and Biochemical Properties of Newly Invented Aerobic, High-Temperature Compost. In: Satyanarayana, T., Littlechild, J., Kawarabayasi, Y. (eds) Thermophilic Microbes in Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5899-5_4

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