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Computer Course 3
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e )
Priciples for thermodynamic modelling of microbial reactions
- Application of
a simple calculation model (Excel spread sheet).
- Thermodynamic
laws and the calculation of free energies.
- Range of applicability
of thermodynamic principles in microbial energetics.
- Free energies
of reactions: terms, definitions and abbreviations.
- Application of
thermodynamics in ecological processes:
- Direction and
probability of reactions, exergonic and endergonic reactions,
- Alterations of
Gr by microbially mediated processes,
- Influence of
pH and temperature on Gr,
- Microbial activities
which change the ion activity product and the solubility of minerals,
- Activities which
alter redox conditions (pe).
f ) Examples to thermodynamic modelling
- Aerobic and anaerobic
oxidation of ammonia.
- The missing link:
ammonia-based photosynthesis.
- Acetogenic and
sulfidogenic methanol utilization.
- Chemolithoautotrophic
growth with reduced S-compounds & nitrate as electron acceptor:
Thioploca sp.
- Interactions
in anaerobic communities: a thermodynamic perspective.
- Syntrophobacter
wolinii in association with hydrogenotrophs: predictions based
on thermodynamics.
- Thermochemical
energy yield from substrate oxidation with different oxidants.
- Anaerobic methane
oxidation: a missing organism ?
- Growth efficiency
of methanogens.
- Alteration of
halogenated hydrocarbons through halorespiration.
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