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Charles J. Banks
Researcher at University of Southampton
Publications - 221
Citations - 9219
Charles J. Banks is an academic researcher from University of Southampton. The author has contributed to research in topics: Anaerobic digestion & Biogas. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 217 publications receiving 8103 citations. Previous affiliations of Charles J. Banks include University of Manchester & Spanish National Research Council.
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The effect of volatile fatty acid additions on the anaerobic digestion of cellulose and glucose in batch reactors
Irene Siegert,Charles J. Banks +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the degradation of the primary substrates cellulose and glucose was assayed when dosed with a concentration range from 1 to 20 ǫ of a synthetic mixture of volatile fatty acids (VFA).
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Anaerobic digestion of source-segregated domestic food waste: Performance assessment by mass and energy balance
TL;DR: An anaerobic digester receiving food waste collected mainly from domestic kitchens was monitored over a period of 426 days, showing a high ammonia concentration in the digester which may have been responsible for the accumulation of volatile fatty acids that was also observed.
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Trace element requirements for stable food waste digestion at elevated ammonia concentrations
TL;DR: The work investigated why anaerobic digesters treating food waste and operating at high ammonia concentrations suffer from propionic acid accumulation which may result in process failure and showed deficiency of selenium leads to this while supplementation allows operation at substantially higher organic loading rates (OLR).
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Influence of inoculum to substrate ratio on the biochemical methane potential of maize in batch tests
TL;DR: In this article, completely mixed batch reactors were used to compare the methane production from maize at inoculum to substrate volatile solids ratios (r(l/s)) of 3, 2, 1.5 and 1.4.
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Thiol-functionalised mesoporous silica-coated magnetite nanoparticles for high efficiency removal and recovery of Hg from water
TL;DR: Thiol-functionalised silica-coated magnetite nanoparticles were found to be almost spherical with a uniform mesoporous structure with a pore size of ∼2.1nm and strongly responsive to an external magnetic field making separation from solution possible in less than 1min.