Abstract
In the early 1960s, the physiology and biochemistry of micro-organisms capable of growth on C1 compounds was an obscure field of biology, of interest only to those who wanted to examine the borderline between autotrophy and heterotrophy. At that time also only a few species of methanogenic bacteria had been obtained in pure culture, and our knowledge of the biochemistry of methanogenesis was very slight. One of the reasons for the subsequent tremendous development in our knowledge of the two areas described in Chapters 2 to 4 is the realization of the wide range of possible technological applications of methanogenic and methylotrophic organisms. This chapter covers the more important of these applications, which range from quite old techniques (such as the anaerobic sludge digester) to applications that although potentially of great usefulness have still not left the laboratory stage of development. The topics treated in the greatest detail, because of their established commercial and social usefulness, are the production of methane from organic waste and the use of methylotrophs for the production of animal feedstuffs.
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Large, P.J. (1983). Biotechnological Applications of Methanogenic and Methylotrophic Micro-organisms. In: Methylotrophy and Methanogenesis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3169-5_5
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