Producing Biogas and Identifying Bacteria

Presenter: Yuji Sunaoshi

Published: January 2013

Age: 14-19 and upwards

Views: 11182 views

Tags: Biogas bacteria

Type: Highschool presentations

Source/institution: Yokohama Science Frontier High School

Bacteria which adhere to plants have ability to produce gases such as hydrogen, methane or ammonia. These are called biogas. Biogas is recognized as new and clean source of energy. I wanted to know what kind of bacteria produce biogas. I isolated bacteria from two plants, and analyzed them to find their taxonomy by four methods. SEM, Gram’s stain, analysis of G/C contents in DNA and PCR (sequence).  Up to now I have identified bacterial taxonomy, genus bacillus.