AIMS Bioengineering (Dec 2014)

Experimental methods for screening parameters influencing the growth to product yield (Y<sub>(x/CH4)</sub>) of a biological methane production (BMP) process performed with <em>Methanothermobacter marburgensis</em>

  • Sébastien Bernacchi,
  • Simon Rittmann,
  • Arne H. Seifert,
  • Alexander Krajete,
  • Christoph Herwig

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3934/bioeng.2014.2.72
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 2
pp. 72 – 87

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