Biohydrogen production from diluted-acid hydrolysate of rice straw in a continuous anaerobic packed bed biofilm reactor |
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Affiliation: | Department of Chemical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 8415683111, Iran |
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Abstract: | Bio-hydrogen production in a continuously operated anaerobic packed bed biofilm reactor (APBR) using acid-hydrolysate of rice straw as feedstock and inoculated with an anaerobic mesophilic sludge from a municipal wastewater treatment plant was investigated at three different HRTs (17, 8.2 and 2 h). Fermentable sugars solution achieved from a two-stage diluted acid hydrolysis of rice straw was used as the feedstock. First, rice straw was treated with 1% w v?1 sulfuric acid at 120 °C for 30 min with a yield of 58.5% xylose. Higher temperature of 180 °C for 10 min at 0.5% w v?1 sulfuric acid was applied in the second stage in which cellulosic crystalline structure was partially depolymerized to glucose with a yield of 19.3% glucose. Hydrogen production rate and yield were enhanced as the hydraulic retention time was decreased with a maximum production rate of 252 mL L?1 h?1 and yield of 1 mol H2 mol?1 sugar consumed at 2 h HRT. Experimental results illustrated the increase of COD conversion from 44% to 47% by shortening the HRT from 17 to 2 h. Furthermore, acetic acid and butyric acid production were reduced slower than other soluble metabolites like ethanol. |
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Keywords: | Dark fermentation Bio-hydrogen Anaerobic packed bed biofilm reactor Hydraulic retention time Two-stage hydrolysis |
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