Research Article
Comparative Metagenomic Analysis of Electrogenic Microbial Communities in Differentially Inoculated Swine Wastewater-Fed Microbial Fuel Cells
Table 2
Removal of selected volatile fatty acids by swine wastewater-fed microbial fuel cells.
| Source | Concentration (mg L−1) | Acetate | Propionate | Isobutyrate | Butyrate | Isovalerate | Valerate | Hexanoate |
| SW inflow | 114.95 | 425.26 | 10.40 | 198.07 | 81.48 | 127.26 | 96.56 | SS-inoculated MFC effluent | 7.06 ± 3.65 | 59.98 ± 51.37 | 0.90 ± 0.78 | 0.80 ± 0.46 | 5.62 ± 4.79 | 0.98 ± 0.88 | 0.51 ± 0.29 | IGBS- inoculated MFC effluent | 8.78 ± 3.72 | 108.65 ± 25.54 | 6.24 ± 1.60 | 4.50 ± 1.12 | 40.89 ± 7.41 | 12.26 ± 3.90 | 4.87 ± 0.83 |
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±Range of variation between the two MFCs of each type.
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