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A compact tubular photobioreactor for outdoor hydrogen production from molasses
Date
2017-01-26
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KAYAHAN, Emine
Eroglu, Inci
Koku, Harun
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Hydrogen can be produced sustainably by photofermentation of biomass. For an economically feasible operation, the process should be implemented outdoors using low-cost organic material. In the current study, molasses from a sugar factory was utilized for photofermentative hydrogen production. The experiment was run with Rhodobacter capsulatus YO3 (hup-) in fed-batch mode under outdoor conditions in Ankara between July 12, 2015 and July 24, 2015. The stacked U-tube photobioreactor (9 L) designed for outdoor photobiological hydrogen production by our group was used. The design consists of 4 stacked U-tubes and 2 vertical manifolds. During the operation, the sucrose concentration in the reactor was adjusted to 5 mM daily by diluting the molasses. Maintaining pH at the desired level (around 7.0) was the main challenge of the operation. The pH value was eventually stabilized at 5.9 and hydrogen production was sustained for 8 days with continuous feeding of molasses. The maximum productivity was found as 0.31 mol H-2/(m(3) h). In this study, a long term photobiological hydrogen production from molasses under outdoor conditions was demonstrated for the first time. (C) 2016 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Subject Keywords
Photofermentation
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Stacked U-tube reactor
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Photobioreactor
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Biohydrogen
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Rhodobacter capsulatus
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Molasses
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37168
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2016.08.014
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E. KAYAHAN, I. Eroglu, and H. Koku, “A compact tubular photobioreactor for outdoor hydrogen production from molasses,”
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
, pp. 2575–2582, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37168.