A review of biohydrogen productions from lignocellulosic precursor via dark fermentation: perspective on hydrolysate composition and electron-equivalent balance

Liu, Yiyang, Min, Jingluo, Feng, Xingyu, He, Yue, Liu, Jinze, Wang, Yixiao, He, Jun, Do, Hainam, Sage, Valérie, Yang, Gang and Sun, Yong (2020) A review of biohydrogen productions from lignocellulosic precursor via dark fermentation: perspective on hydrolysate composition and electron-equivalent balance. Energies, 13 (10). p. 2451. ISSN 1996-1073

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Abstract

This paper reviews the current technological development of bio-hydrogen (BioH2) generation, focusing on using lignocellulosic feedstock via dark fermentation (DF). Using the collected reference reports as the training data set, supervised machine learning via the constructed artificial neuron networks (ANNs) imbedded with feed backward propagation and one cross-out validation approach was deployed to establish correlations between the carbon sources (glucose and xylose) together with the inhibitors (acetate and other inhibitors, such as furfural and aromatic compounds), hydrogen yield (HY), and hydrogen evolution rate (HER) from reported works. Through the statistical analysis, the concentrations variations of glucose (F-value = 0.0027) and acetate (F-value = 0.0028) were found to be statistically significant among the investigated parameters to HY and HER. Manipulating the ratio of glucose to acetate at an optimal range (approximate in 14:1) will effectively improve the BioH2 generation (HY and HER) regardless of microbial strains inoculated. Comparative studies were also carried out on the evolutions of electron equivalent balances using lignocellulosic biomass as substrates for BioH2 production across different reported works. The larger electron sinks in the acetate is found to be appreciably related to the higher HY and HER. To maintain a relative higher level of the BioH2 production, the biosynthesis needs to be kept over 30% in batch cultivation, while the biosynthesis can be kept at a low level (2%) in the continuous operation among the investigated reports. Among available solutions for the enhancement of BioH2 production, the selection of microbial strains with higher capacity in hydrogen productions is still one of the most phenomenal approaches in enhancing BioH2 production. Other process intensifications using continuous operation compounded with synergistic chemical additions could deliver additional enhancement for BioH2 productions during dark fermentation.

Item Type: Article
Keywords: biohydrogen; lignocellulosic precursor; artificial neuron networks; electron-equivalent balance; process intensification; review
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham Ningbo China > Faculty of Science and Engineering > Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Identification Number: 10.3390/en13102451
Depositing User: Zhou, Elsie
Date Deposited: 10 Jun 2020 01:39
Last Modified: 10 Jun 2020 01:39
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/60882

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