Biohydrogen anaerobic

Han, S.-K., Shin, H.-S. 2004. Biohydrogen production by anaerobic fermentation of food waste. Int J Hydrogen Energy 29 569-577. 

Dark fermentation is the fermentative conversion of organic substrate to biohydrogen, it is a complex process manifested by a diverse group of bacteria by a series of biochemical reactions involving three steps similar to anaerobic conversion. Dark fermentation differs from photofermentation because it proceeds without the presence of light. 

BIOHYDROGEN PRODUCTION BY ANAEROBIC BIOLOGICAL FERMENTATION OF AGRICULTURE WASTE... 

However, the research of the conversion of the biomass containing cellulose, such as com stalk, into biohydrogen is lacking. In general, it is hard to convert directly raw crop stalk wastes into biohydrogen gas by microbe anaerobic fermentation because of their complex chemical composition, e.g., cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, protein, fat. 

Here, our research interest is to convert the biomass containing cellulose, such as com stalk wastes into hydrogen gas by natural anaerobic microorganism. For this purpose, several environmental factors, such as pretreatment of substrate, initial pH and substrate concentration, were selected as target factors in conversion of com stalk wastes into biohydrogen gas by cow dung composts. 

Chang, F. Y., and Lin, C. Y. 2004. Biohydrogen production using an up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 29, 33-39. 

Duangmanee, T., Chyi, Y., and Sung, S. 2002a. Biohydrogen production in mixed culture anaerobic fermentation. Quebec, Canada Proc. 14th World Hydrogen Energy Conf. 

Ren, N., Li, I, Li, B., Wang, Y., and Liu, S. 2006. Biohydrogen production from molasses by anaerobic fermentation with a pilot-scale bioreactor system. Int. J. Hydrogen... 

Vijayaraghavan, K., and Ahmad, D. 2006. Biohydrogen generation from palm oil mill effluent using anaerobic contact filter. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 31, 1284-1291. 

Wu, S. Y., Lin, C. N., Chang, J. S., and Chang, J. S. 2005. Biohydrogen production with anaerobic sludge immobilized by ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer. Int. I. Hydrogen Energy, 30.1375-1381. 

Lay, J. (2000). Biohydrogen generation by mesophihc anaerobic fermentation of microcrystalline cellulose. Biotechnology Bioeng. 74,280-287. 

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