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Carbon degradation indicates the efficiency of anaerobic digestion processes. Common carbon degradation determination methods define gross carbon degradation (C deg gross ) of substrate and inoculum inseparably. The aim of this study was to test an isotope-based method defining solely substrate-based net carbon degradation (C deg net ) on maize silage. As the natural abundance of stable isotopes in agricultural substrates vary, the method’s applicability was tested on (i) different maize silages sampled from agricultural farms, (ii) maize silage in fresh (MS fresh ) and impaired storage (MS impaired ) conditions.Experiments included six maize silages digested in a total of 19 lab-scale batch reactors, analyzed for digestion parameters, stable isotopes, gross and net carbon degradation. MS impaired  showed significantly different stable carbon isotope composition at the start of the experiments, compared to MS fresh . Both methods indicated quality losses in MS impaired . Results showed significantly higher C deg net  values, ranging from 58.4% to 86.5%, compared to deg gross  values, ranging from 23.1% to 48.7%. This indicated the applicability of an isotope-based method C deg net  to assess net carbon degradation of maize silages more detailed by excluding the masking effect of the inoculum. The isotope-based net carbon degradation method was found applicable on maize silages from (i) different farms and (ii) in different storage qualities.

Stable carbon isotope analyses offer insights into net carbon degradation of maize silages in anaerobic batch fermentations