Investigation of the effects of initial substrate and biomass concentrations and light intensity on photofermentative hydrogen gas production by Response Surface Methodology

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2015-04-27

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Akman, Melih Can
Bayramoğlu, Tuba Hande
Gündüz, Ufuk
EROĞLU, İNCİ

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Biohydrogen, which can be produced by dark fermentation and photofermentation processes, is a renewable and clean approach for hydrogen production. In this study, it was aimed to determine the operational conditions which satisfy the highest photofermentative hydrogen production rate in batch reactors. To that purpose, the effects of initial substrate concentration, initial volatile suspended solids (VSS) concentration and light intensity on photofermentation process, and their interactive effects were investigated by using Response Surface Methodology (RSM). The photofermentative process was followed by using pure strain of purple non-sulfur (PNS) bacteria: Rhodobacter capsulatus DSM 1710. RSM results revealed that the highest hydrogen production rate of 1.04 mmol/L-reactor.h can be obtained when acetate concentration, initial R. capsulatus concentration and the light intensity values were 35.35 mM, 0.27 g VSS/L and 263.6 W/m(2) (3955 lux), respectively. Optimum Substrate/Initial biomass concentration ratio (S/X-o) was found as 7.7 g acetate/g VSS (8.3 g Chemical Oxygen Demand/g VSS). Copyright (C) 2015, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Biohydrogen, COD-chemical oxygen demand, Photofermentation, Rhodobacter capsulatus, Response surface methodology

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/31573

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2015.02.093

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M. C. Akman, T. H. Bayramoğlu, U. Gündüz, and İ. EROĞLU, “Investigation of the effects of initial substrate and biomass concentrations and light intensity on photofermentative hydrogen gas production by Response Surface Methodology,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY, pp. 5042–5049, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/31573.