Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse gas with greater warming potential than carbon dioxide, that significantly influences global warming. N2O emissions are the largest single contribution from Danish wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to greenhouse gas emissions.
Effectively addressing N2O emissions necessitates a thorough understanding of the microorganism communities, the microbiomes, within WWTP processes.  To this end, DNASense provides cutting-edge microbiome analyses as part of a Krüger A/S led project to reduce WWTP N2O emissions.
DNASense recently shipped sampling kits to the 13 Danish WWTPs participating in Krüger A/S´s project. Incoming samples are marker gene sequenced (bacteria 16S rRNA V1-8) using Oxford Nanopore Technologies long-read sequencing for accurate and high-resolution profiling of the WWTP microbiomes.
Marker gene sequencing offers cost-effective microbiome monitoring, providing essential operational insights for engineered microbial communities in applications like WWTPs, biofuel production, and remediation plants.