Effects of different pretreatment methods on fermentation types and dominant bacteria for hydrogen production |
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Authors: | Nan-Qi Ren Wan-Qian Guo Xiang-Jing Wang Wen-Sheng Xiang Bing-Feng Liu Xing-Zu Wang Jie Ding Zhao-Bo Chen |
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Affiliation: | 1. State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, Heilongjiang, China;2. Research Center of Life Science and Biotechnology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China |
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Abstract: | In order to enrich hydrogen producing bacteria and to establish high-efficient communities of the mixed microbial cultures, inoculum needs to be pretreated before the cultivation. Four pretreatment methods including heat-shock pretreatment, acid pretreatment, alkaline pretreatment and repeated-aeration pretreatment were performed on the seed sludge which was collected from a secondary settling tank of a municipal wastewater treatment plant. In contrast to the control test without any pretreatment, the heat-shock pretreatment, acid pretreatment and repeated-aeration pretreatment completely suppressed the methanogenic activity of the seed sludge, but the alkaline pretreatment did not. Employing different pretreatment methods resulted in the change in fermentation types as butyric-acid type fermentation was achieved by the heat-shock and alkaline pretreatments, mixed-acid type fermentation was achieved by acid pretreatment and the control, and ethanol-type fermentation was observed by repeated-aeration pretreatment. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) profiles revealed that pretreatment method substantially affected the species composition of microbial communities. The highest hydrogen yield of 1.96 mol/mol-glucose was observed with the repeated-aeration pretreatment method, while the lowest was obtained as the seed sludge was acidified. It is concluded that the pretreatment methods led to the difference in the initial microbial communities which might be directly responsible for different fermentation types and hydrogen yields. |
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Keywords: | Hydrogen production Pretreatment Fermentation type Microbial community Mixed culture Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) |
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