Biohydrogen production in a continuous stirred tank bioreactor from synthesis gas by anaerobic photosynthetic bacterium: Rhodopirillum rubrum

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2612-2619

  Younesi, Habibollah ^a   Najafpour, Ghasem ^b   Ku Ismail, Ku Syahidah ^c   Mohamed, Abdul Rahman ^d   Kamaruddin, Azlina Harun ^d  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAZANDARAN   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

^d SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Agitation rate and dilution rate; Hydrogen; Mass transfer; Rhodospirillum rubrum; Syngas

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; MASS TRANSFER; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYNTHESIS GAS;

AGITATION RATE; DILUTION RATE; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM;

BIOREACTORS;

ACETIC ACID; HYDROGEN;

BIOREACTORS; HYDROGEN; MASS TRANSFER; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYNTHESIS GAS;

ACETATE; ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; CATALYSIS; DILUTION; FERMENTATION; GAS FLOW; HYDROGEN; PH; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBON SOURCE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAS FLOW; NONHUMAN; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOPIRILLUM RUBRUM; STIRRED REACTOR; SYNTHESIS;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BIOREACTORS; CULTURE MEDIA; HYDROGEN; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM;

PHOTOBACTERIA; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM;

EID: 38849141133     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2007.04.059     Document Type: Article

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