A critical review on issues and overcoming strategies for the enhancement of dark fermentative hydrogen production in continuous systems

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 3820-3836

  Sivagurunathan, Periyasamy ^a   Kumar, Gopalakrishnan ^b   Bakonyi, Péter ^c   Kim, Sang Hyoun ^a   Kobayashi, Takurou ^d   Xu, Kai Qin ^d   Lakner, Gábor ^c,e   Tóth, Gábor ^c   Nemestóthy, Nándor ^c   Bélafi Bakó, Katalin ^c  

^a Daegu University   (South Korea)

^b TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^e Hidrofilt Ltd   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Bioaugmentation; BioH2; Bottlenecks; Production rate; Strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988919604     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2015.12.081     Document Type: Review

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