Developments and constraints in fermentative hydrogen production

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 201-214

  Bartacek, Jan ^a,b   Zabranska, Jana ^b   Lens, Piet N L ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Fermentation; Hydrogen production; Reactors; Substrates

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; FERMENTATIVE HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; FULL-SCALE APPLICATIONS; REACTOR DESIGNS; REACTORS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RESEARCH DIRECTIONS;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; FERMENTATION; GAS PRODUCERS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SUBSTRATES; THERMOCHEMISTRY;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 43049167957     PISSN: 1932104X     EISSN: 19321031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bbb.17     Document Type: Review

References (109)

1. The European Commission's High Level Group on Hydrogen & Fuel Cells. Euro vision for hydrogen energy and fuel cells. Fuel Cells Bulletin. 2003 (7):10 (2003).
2. Turner JA, Sustainable hydrogen production. Science 305(5686):972-974 (2004).
3. Lyberatos G, Gavala H, Kornaros M, Stamatelatou K and Angelopulos K, Biological production of hydrogen from waste and biomass, in HP Euro Summer School on Biotechnology in Organic Waste Management, ed by Lens PNL, 29 June-4 July, Wageningen, The Netherlands (2003).
4. Mizuno O, Ohara T, Shinya M and Noike T, Characteristics of hydrogen production from bean curd manufacturing waste by anaerobic microflora. Water Sci Technol 42:345 (2000).
5. Yu H, Zhu Z, Hu W and Zhang H, Hydrogen production from rice winery wastewater in an upflow anaerobic reactor by using mixed anaerobic cultures. Int J Hydrogen Energy 27:1359-1365 (2002).
6. Hawkes FR, Dinsdale R, Hawkes DL and Hussy I, Sustainable fermentative hydrogen production: challenges for process optimisation. Int J Hydrogen Energy 27:1339 (2002).
7. Belafi-Bako K, Bucsu D, Pientka Z, Balint B, Herbel Z, Kovacs KL et al., Integration of biohydrogen fermentation and gas separation processes to recover and enrich hydrogen. Int J Hydrogen Energy 31:1490 (2006).
8. Sammes NM, Du Y and Bove R, Fuel cell principles and prospective, in Biofuels for Fuel Cells, ed. by Lens PNL, Westermann P, Haberbauer M, Moreno A. IWA Publishing, Seattle, pp. 235-247 (2005).
9. Li C and Fang HHP, Fermentative hydrogen production from wastewater and solid wastes by mixed cultures. Crit Rev Environ Sci Technol 37(1):1-39 (2007).
10. Kosourov S, Patrusheva E, Ghirardi ML, Seibert M and Tsygankov A, A comparison of hydrogen photoproduction by sulfur-deprived Chlamydomonas reinhardtii under different growth conditions. J Biotechnol 128:776 (2007).
11. Hallenbeck PC and Benemann JR, Biological hydrogen production; fundamentals and limiting processes. Int J Hydrogen Energy 27:1185 (2002).
12. Levin DB, Pitt L and Love M, Biohydrogen production: prospects and limitations to practical application. Int J Hydrogen Energy 29:173 (2004).
13. Ashutosh P, Archana P, Priya S and Anjana P, Using reverse micelles as microreactor for hydrogen production by coupled systems of Nostoc/R. palustris and Anabaena/R. palustris. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 23:269 (2007).
14. Gutthann F, Egert M, Marques A and Appel J, Inhibition of respiration and nitrate assimilation enhances photohydrogen evolution under low oxygen concentrations in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Biochimica Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics 1767(2):161 (2007).
15. Oh Y-K, Seol E-H, Lee EY and Park S, Fermentative hydrogen production by a new chemoheterotrophic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas Palustris P4. Int J Hydrogen Energy 27:1373-9 (2002).
16. Oh Y-K, Seol E-H, Kim MSM-S and Park S, Photoproduction of hydrogen from acetate by a chemoheterotrophic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris P4. Int J Hydrogen Energy 29:1115-1121 (2004).
17. Claassen PAM and de Vrije T, Non-thermal production of pure hydrogen from biomass: HYVOLUTION. Int J Hydrogen Energy 31:1416 (2006).
18. Amend JP and Shock EL, Energetics of overall metabolic reactions of thermophilic and hyperthermophilic Archaea and Bacteria. FEMS Microbiol Rev 25:175-243 (2001).
19. Claassen PAM, van Lier JB, Lopez Contreras AM, van Niel EWJ, Sijtsma L, Stams AJM et al., Utilisation of biomass for the supply of energy carriers. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 52:741-755 (1999).
20. Woodward J, Orr M, Cordray K and Greenbaum E, Biotechnology: enzymatic production of biohydrogen. Nature 405(6790):1014-1015 (2000).
21. Mosey FE, Mathematical modelling of the anaerobic digestion process: Regulatory mechanisms for the formation of short-chain volatile acids from glucose. Water Sci Technol 15:209-232 (1983).
22. Rodríguez J, Kleerebezem R, Lema JM and van Loosdrecht MCM, Modeling product formation in anaerobic mixed culture fermentations. Biotechnol Bioeng 93:592-606 (2006).
23. Shin H-S, Youn J-H and Kim S-H, Hydrogen production from food waste in anaerobic mesophilic and thermophilic acidogenesis. Int J Hydrogen Energy 29:1355 (2004).
24. Hawkes FR, Hussy I, Kyazze G, Dinsdale R and Hawkes DL, Continuous dark fermentative hydrogen production by mesophilic microflora: Principles and progress. Int J Hydrogen Energy 32:172 (2007).
25. Lay J-J, Modeling and optimization of anaerobic digested sludge converting starch to hydrogen. Biotechnol Bioeng 68:269-278 (2000).
26. Lin C-Y and Chang R-C, Hydrogen production during the anaerobic acidogenic conversion of glucose. J Chem Technol Biotechnol 74:498-500 (1999).
27. Taguchi F, Yamada K, Hasegawa K, Taki-Saito T and Hara K. Continuous hydrogen production by Clostridium sp. strain no. 2 from cellulose hydrolysate in an aqueous two-phase system. J Fermentation Bioeng 82 (1):80 (1996).
28. Ericsson LE and Fung YC, Anaerobes, in Encyclopedia of Bioprocess Technology - Fermentation, Biocatalysis, and Bioseparation, ed. By Flickinger MC, Drew SW. John Wiley & Sons (1999).
29. Wang CC, Chang CW, Chu CP, Lee DJ, Chang B-V, Liao CS et al., Using filtrate of waste biosolids to effectively produce bio-hydrogen by anaerobic fermentation. Water Res 37:2789-2793 (2003).
30. Noike T and Mizuno O, Hydrogen fermentation of organic municipal wastes. Water Sci Technol 42:155-162 (2000).
31. Noike T, Ko IB, Yokoyama S, Kohno Y and Li YY, Continuous hydrogen production from organic waste. Water Sci Technol 52(1-2):145-151 (2005).
32. Yokoi H, Mori S, Hirose J, Hayashi S and Takasaki Y, H2 production from starch by a mixed culture of Clostridium butyricum and Rhodobacter sp. M-19. Biotechnol Lett 20:895 (1998).
33. Fang HHP, Zhu H and Zhang T, Phototrophic hydrogen production from glucose by pure and co-cultures of Clostridium butyricum and Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Int J Hydrogen Energy. 31:2223 (2006).
34. Zhang H, Bruns MA and Logan BE, Biological hydrogen production by Clostridium acetobutylicum in an unsaturated flow reactor. Water Res 40:728 (2006).
35. Shin J-H, Hyun Yoon J, Eun Kyoung A, Kim M-S, Jun Sim S and Park TH, Fermentative hydrogen production by the newly isolated Enterobacter asburiae SNU-1. Int J Hydrogen Energy 32:192-199 (2007).
36. Nath K, Kumar A and Das D, Effect of some environmental parameters on fermentative hydrogen production by Enterobacter cloacae DM11. Can J Microbiol 52:525 (2006).
37. Oh Y-K, Seol E-H, Kim JR, Park S. Fermentative biohydrogen production by a new chemoheterotrophic bacterium Citrobacter sp. Y19. Int J Hydrogen Energy 28:1353-1359 (2003).
38. Kotay SM and Das D, Microbial hydrogen production with Bacillus coagulans IIT-BT S1 isolated from anaerobic sewage sludge. Bioresource Technol 98:1183 (2007).
39. Kádár Z, De Vrije T, van Noorden GE, Budde MAW, Szengyel Z, Réczey K et al., Yields from glucose, xylose, and paper sludge hydrolysate during hydrogen production by the extreme thermophile Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus. Appl Biochem Biotechnol. 114:497 (2004).
40. Yokoi H, Tokushige T, Hirose J, Hayashi S and Takasaki Y, H2 production from starch by a mixed culture of Clostridium butyricum and Enterobacter aerogenes. Biotechnol Lett 20:143 (1998).
41. Bai M-D, Cheby S-S, Chany S-M, Wu K-L and Chen W-C, Feasibility study of hydrogen production with anaerobi digestion of pretreated sludge, in 9th World Congress Anaerobic Digestion, ed. by Van Lier J, Lubberding H, 2-6 September, Antwerpen, Belgium. IWA Publishing, pp. 245-248 (2001).
42. Fang HHP, Li C and Zhang T. Acidophilic biohydrogen production from rice slurry. Int J Hydrogen Energy 31:683-692 (2006).
43. Han S-K and Shin H-S. Biohydrogen production by anaerobic fermentation of food waste. Int J Hydrogen Energy 29:569-577 (2004).
44. Logan BE, Oh S-E, Kim IS and van Ginkel S. Biological hydrogen production measured in batch anaerobic respirometers. Environ Sci Technol 36:2530 (2002).
45. Van Ginkel SW and Logan B, Increased biological hydrogen production with reduced organic loading. Water Res 39:3819 (2005).
46. Sparling R, Risbey D and Poggi-Varaldo HM, Hydrogen production from inhibited anaerobic composters. Int J Hydrogen Energy 22: 563-6 (1997).
47. Fang HHP and Liu H, Effect of pH on hydrogen production from glucose by a mixed culture. Bioresource Technol 82:87-93 (2002).
48. Chen CC, Lin CY and Chang JS, Kinetics of hydrogen production with continuous anaerobic cultures utilizing sucrose as the limiting substrate. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 57:56-64 (2001).
49. Lay J-J, Fan K-S, Chang J and Ku C-H, Influence of chemical nature of organic wastes on their conversion to hydrogen by heat-shock digested sludge. Int J Hydrogen Energy 28:1361-1367 (2003).
50. Mizuno O, Dinsdale R, Hawkes FR, Hawkes DL, Noike T, Enhancement of hydrogen production from glucose by nitrogen gas sparging. Bioresource Technol 73(1):59 (2000).
51. Yokoi H, Tokushige T, Hirose J, Hayashi S and Takasaki Y, Hydrogen production by immobilized cells of aciduric Enterobacter aerogenes strain HO-39. J Fermentation Bioeng 83:481-484 (1997).
52. Zhang Z-P, Tay J-H, Show K-Y, Yan R, Tee Liang D, Lee D-J et al., Biohydrogen production in a granular activated carbon anaerobic fluidized bed reactor. Int J Hydrogen Energy 32:185-191 (2007).
53. Hwang MH, Jang NJ, Hyun SH and Kim IS, Anaerobic bio-hydrogen production from ethanol fermentation: the role of pH. J Biotechnol 111:297-309 (2004).
54. Cohen A, Zoetemeyer RJ, van Deursen A and van Andel JG, Anaerobic digestion of glucose with separated acid production and methane formation. Water Res 13:571-580 (1979).
55. Fang HHP, Zhang T and Liu H, Microbial diversity of a mesophilic hydrogen-producing sludge. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 58:112-118 (2002).
56. Taguchi F, Mizukami N, Yamada K, Hasegawa K and Saito-Taki T, Direct conversion of cellulosic materials to hydrogen by Clostridium sp. strain no. 2. Enzyme Microb Technol 17:147-150 (1995).
57. Chang J-S, Lee K-S and Lin P-J, Biohydrogen production with fixed-bed bioreactors. Int J Hydrogen Energy 27:1167 (2002).
58. Chang F-Y, Lin C-Y. Biohydrogen production using an up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor. Int J Hydrogen Energy 29):33 (2004).
59. Hussy I, Hawkes FR, Dinsdale R and Hawkes DL, Continuous fermentative hydrogen production from sucrose and sugarbeet. Int J Hydrogen Energy 30:471 (2005).
60. Fan Y, Li C, Lay J-J, Hou H and Zhang G, Optimization of initial substrate and pH levels for germination of sporing hydrogen-producing anaerobes in cow dung compost. Bioresource Technol 91:189-193 (2004).
61. Chen CC, Lin CY. Using sucrose as a substrate in an anaerobic hydrogen-producing reactor. Adv Environ Res 7:695-699 (2003).
62. Lin CY and Lay CH, A nutrient formulation for fermentative hydrogen production using anaerobic sewage sludge microflora. Int J Hydrogen Energy 30:285-292 (2005).
63. Fang HHP and Zhang HLT, Characterization of a hydrogen-producing granular sludge. Biotechnol Bioeng 78(1):44-52 (2002).
64. Lee K-S, Lo Y-C, Lin P-J and Chang J-S, Improving biohydrogen production in a carrier-induced granular sludge bed by altering physical configuration and agitation pattern of the bioreactor. Int J Hydrogen Energy 31:1648-1657 (2006).
65. Lin CY and Lay CH, Carbon/nitrogen-ratio effect on fermentative hydrogen production by mixed microflora. Int J Hydrogen Energy 29:41-45 (2004).
66. de Vrije T, de Haas GG, Tan GB, Keijsers ERP and Claassen PAM, Pretreatment of Miscanthus for hydrogen production by Thermotoga elfii. Int J Hydrogen Energy 27:1381 (2002).
67. Bouallagui H, Touhami Y, Ben Cheikh R, Hamdi M. Bioreactor performance in anaerobic digestion of fruit and vegetable wastes. Process Biochem 40:989-995 (2005).
68. Okamoto M, Miyahara T, Mizuno O and Noike T, Biological hydrogen potential of materials characteristic of the organic fraction of municipal solid wastes. Water Sci Technol 41(3):25-32 (2000).
69. Mtz.-Viturtia A, Mata-Alvarez J and Cecchi F, Two-phase continuous anaerobic digestion of fruit and vegetable wastes. Resources, Conservation Recycling 13:257-267 (1995).
70. Yokoi H, Maki R, Hirose J and Hayashi S, Microbial production of hydrogen from starch-manufacturing wastes. Biomass Bioenergy 22:389-397 (2002).
71. Vijayaraghavan K, Ahmad D and Khairil Bin Ibrahim M, Biohydrogen generation from jackfruit peel using anaerobic contact filter. Int J Hydrogen Energy 31:569-579 (2006).
72. Noike T, Takabatake H, Mizuno O, Ohba M. Inhibition of hydrogen fermentation of organic wastes by lactic acid bacteria. Int J Hydrogen Energy 27:1367-1371 (2002).
73. Gavala HN, Skiadas IV, Ahring BK and Lyberatos G, Potential for biohydrogen and methane production from olive pulp. Water Sci Technol 52 (1-2):209 (2005).
74. Ueno Y, Otsuka S and Morimoto M, Hydrogen production from industrial wastewater by anaerobic microflora in chemostat culture. J Fermentation Bioeng 82:194-197 (1996).
75. Mizuno O, Shinya M and Miyahara TN, Effects of pH on biological hydrogen production from organic wastewater, in 9th World Congress Anaerobi Digestion, ed. by Van Lier J, Lubberding H. IWA Publishing, Antwerp, pp. 501-503 (2001).
76. Zhang T, Liu H and Fang HHP. Biohydrogen production from starch in wastewater under thermophilic condition. J Environ Manage 69:149-156 (2003).
77. Gavala HNHN, Skiadas IV, Ahring BK and Lyberatos G, Thermophilic anaerobic fermentation of olive pulp for hydrogen and methane production: Modelling of the anaerobic digestion process. Water Sci Technol 53(8):271 (2006).
78. Eroglu E, Eroglu I, Gunduz U, Turker L and Yucel M, Biological hydrogen production from olive mill wastewater with two-stage processes. Int J Hydrogen Energy 31):1527 (2006).
79. Zhu H, Ueda S, Asada Y and Miyake J, Hydrogen production as a novel process of wastewater treatment-studies on tofu wastewater with entrapped R. sphaeroides and mutagenesis. Int J Hydrogen Energy 27:1349-1157 (2002).
80. Han S-K, Kim S-H, Shin H-S, UASB treatment of wastewater with VFA and alcohol generated during hydrogen fermentation of food waste. Process Biochem 40:2897-2905 (2005).
81. Guwy AJ, Hawkes FR, Hawkes DL, Rozzi AG. Hydrogen production in a high rate fluidised bed anaerobic digester. Water Res 31(6):1291-1298 (1997).
82. Kyazze G, Martinez-Perez N, Dinsdale R, Premier GC, Hawkes FR and Guwy AJ et al., Influence of substrate concentration on the stability and yield of continuous biohydrogen production. Biotechnol Bioeng 93:971-979 (2006).
83. Oh S-E, Iyer P, Bruns MA and Logan BE, Biological hydrogen production using a membrane bioreactor. Biotechnol Bioeng 87:119-127 (2004).
84. Ren NQ and Gong ML, Acclimation strategy of a biohydrogen producing population in a continuous-flow reactor with carbohydrate fermentation. Eng Life Sci 6:403-409 (2006).
85. Chang FY and Lin C-Y, Calcium effect on fermentative hydrogen production in an anaerobic up-flow sludge blanket system. Water Sci Technol 54:105 (2006).
86. Yu H-Q and Mu Y, Biological hydrogen production in a UASB reactor with granules. II: Reactor performance in 3-year operation. Biotechnol Bioeng 94:988-995 (2006).
87. Lee K-S, Wu J-F, Lo Y-S, Lo Y-C, Lin P-J and Chang J-S, Anaerobic hydrogen production with an efficient carrier-induced granular sludge bed bioreactor. Biotechnol Bioeng 87:648-657 (2004).
88. Oh Y-K, Kim SH, Kim M-S and Park S, Thermophilic biohydrogen production from glucose with trickling biofilter. Biotechnol Bioeng 88:690-698 (2004).
89. Wu S-Y, Hung C-H, Lin C-N, Chen H-W, Lee A-S and Chang J-S, Fermentative hydrogen production and bacterial community structure in high-rate anaerobic bioreactors containing silicone-immobilized and self-flocculated sludge. Biotechnol Bioeng 93:934-946 (2006).
90. Shin HS, Han SK, Song YC and Lee CY, Performance of uasb reactor treating leachate from acidogenic fermenter in the two-phase anaerobic digestion of food waste. Water Res 35:3441-3447 (2001).
91. Khanal SK, Chen WHW-H, Li L and Sung S, Biological hydrogen production: effects of pH and intermediate products. Int J Hydrogen Energy 29:1123-1131 (2004).
92. Liu Y, Xu H-L, Yang S-F and Tay J-H, Mechanisms and models for anaerobic granulation in upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor. Water Res 37:661-673 (2003).
93. Fabiano B and Perego P, Thermodynamic study and optimization of hydrogen production by Enterobacter aerogenes. Int J Hydrogen Energy 27:149-156 (2002).
94. Liu H, Zhang T and Fang HHP, Thermophilic H2 production from a cellulose-containing wastewater. Biotechnol Lett 25:365-369 (2003).
95. Lin C-Y and Chang R-C, Fermentative hydrogen production at ambient temperature. Int J Hydrogen Energy 29:715 (2004).
96. Cheng SS, Chen S-T, Bai M-D, Chang SM and Wu KL, Anaerobic hydrogen production in mesophilic and thermophilic fermenting processes, in 9th World Congress Anaerobic Digestion, ed. by Van Lier J, Lubberding H. IWA Publishing, Antwerp, Belgium, pp. 249-251 (2001).
97. Ren N, Li J, Li B, Wang Y and Liu S, Biohydrogen production from molasses by anaerobic fermentation with a pilot-scale bioreactor system. Int J Hydrogen Energy 31:2147-2157 (2006).
98. Cooney M, Maynard N, Cannizzaro C and Benemann J. Two-phase anaerobic digestion for production of hydrogen-methane mixtures. Bioresour Technol 98:2641-2651 (2007).
99. Westermann P and Ahring B. The biorefinery for production of multiple biofuels, in Biofuels for Fuel Cells, ed. by Lens PNL, Westermann P, Haberbauer M, Moreno A. IWA Publishing, London, pp. 194-205 (2002).
100. Haberbauer M, Bifuel quality for fuel cell aplications. Biofuels for Fuel Cells. London: IWA Publishing; 2005. p. 403-14 (2005)
101. Acettola F and Haberbauer M, Control of siloxanes. in Biofuels for Fuel Cells, ed. by Lens PNL, Westermann P, Haberbauer M, Moreno A. IWA Publishing, London, pp. 445-455 (2005).
102. Barbosa VL and Stuetz RM, Treatment of hydrogen sulfide in biofuels. In Biofuels for Fuel Cells, ed. by Lens PNL, Westermann P, Haberbauer M, Moreno A. IWA Publishing, London, pp. 430-443 (2005).
103. Nath K and Das D, Improvement of fermentative hydrogen production: various approaches. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 65:520-529 (2004).
104. Smith GD, Ewart GD and Tucker W, Hydrogen production by cyanobacteria. Int J Hydrogen Energy 17:695-698 (1992).
105. Das D and Veziroglu TN, Hydrogen production by biological processes: a survey of literature. Int J Hydrogen Energy 26:13-28 (2001).
106. Yoshida A, Nishimura T, Kawaguchi H, Inui M and Yukawa H, Efficient induction of formate hydrogen lyase of aerobically grown Escherichia coli in a three-step biohydrogen production process. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 74:754-760 (2007).
107. Penfold DW, Forster CF and Macaskie LE, Increased hydrogen production by Escherichia coli strain HD701 in comparison with the wild-type parent strain MC4100. Enzyme Microb Technol 33:185-189 (2003).
108. Redwood MD and Macaskie LE, A two-stage, two-organism process for biohydrogen from glucose. Int J Hydrogen Energy 31:1514-1521 (2006).
109. Yoshida A, Nishimura T, Kawaguchi H, Inui M and Yukawa H, Enhanced hydrogen production from formic acid by formate hydrogen lyase-overexpressing Escherichia coli strains. Appl Environ Microbiol 71:6762-6768 (2005).