Biological hydrogen production by dark fermentation: challenges and prospects towards scaled-up production

Highlights ► Biofilm-based or granule-based type reactor design and developments are strongly recommended for future application in the field of hydrogen production from organic waste. ► Process modeling through CFD simulation has played an important role in reactor scale-up. ► Co-cultures have syne...

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Published in:Current opinion in biotechnology 2011-06, Vol.22 (3), p.365-370
Main Authors: Ren, Nanqi, Guo, Wanqian, Liu, Bingfeng, Cao, Guangli, Ding, Jie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bacteria - metabolism
Bioreactors - microbiology
Economics
Fermentation
Fossil Fuels
Hydrogen - economics
Hydrogen - metabolism
Internal Medicine
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Summary:Highlights ► Biofilm-based or granule-based type reactor design and developments are strongly recommended for future application in the field of hydrogen production from organic waste. ► Process modeling through CFD simulation has played an important role in reactor scale-up. ► Co-cultures have synergistically increased the rates of substrate conversion and H2 production and yield in the use of cheaper raw material. ► Two main schemes, an integrated process and a sequential process, have been developed to combine dark-fermentation with photo-fermentation processes.
ISSN:0958-1669
1879-0429
DOI:10.1016/j.copbio.2011.04.022