Sludge inoculum solute

The experimental setup used in the smdy is comprised of one reservoir (10 L), from where the solution is fed, through peristaltie pumps, into two eolumn reactors (0.57 L). Experiments were simultaneously conducted in both columns. The first one (column A) contained 40 g of ligneous-cellulosic material plus inoculum, and the second column (column B) contained just 40 g of ligneous-cellulosic material. The anaerobic sludge used as inoculum was obtained from the bottom of an upward-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor fi-om the effluent of a poultry-processing plant. 

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