| 摘要 |
A methane producing aqueous environment including a source of reducing equivalents liberated from within the aqueous environment; substrates including hydrogen and a carbon containing 5 compound selected from the group consisting of: alcohols, fatty acids, organic sulphides, carboxylates, organic amines, organic acids, or a combination thereof, methanogenic organisms; and an electron transfer mediator to catalyse the conversion of the substrates by the methanogenic organisms to methane using the reducing equivalents. The invention also relates to the method of increasing the rate of production of methane in an aqueous environment. |
