Article Cite This: Energy Fuels 2019, 33, 6380−6389
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Characterization of Anthracite-Degrading Methanogenic Microflora Enriched from Qinshui Basin in China Hongguang Guo,†,‡,∥ Yiwen Zhang,†,‡,∥ Jinlong Zhang,†,‡,∥ Zaixing Huang,⊥,# Michael A. Urynowicz,⊥ Weiguo Liang,*,‡,§ Zuoying Han,∇ and Jian Liu∇
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College of Safety and Emergency Management Engineering, ‡Key Lab of In-situ Property Improving Mining of Ministry of Education, §College of Mining Engineering, and ∥Center of Shanxi Mine Safety for Graduate Education Innovation, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030024, China ⊥ Center for Biogenic Natural Gas Research, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and #Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, United States ∇ State Key Laboratory of Coal and CBM Co-mining, Jincheng, Shanxi 048006, China S Supporting Information *
ABSTRACT: Microorganisms are essential for the formation of biogenic coalbed methane (CBM) and the application of microbially enhanced CBM (MECoM). Anthracite-degrading methanogenic microflora was cultivated by enrichment and subculture from produced water obtained in Qinshui Basin where CBM is explored commercially. The maximum methane yield was 255 μmol/g of coal after 23 days of cultivation at 35 °C, 1.1−1.2% of salinity,
