INTEGRATING STUDY ON MECHANISM CONTROL OF BIOLOGICAL HYDROGEN PRODUCTION IN ANAEROBIC PROCESSES

In order to have a healthy and sustainable Earth, environmental protection and sustainable development issues drive the research direction toward the investigation of new technologies for waste recycling and reuse and clean energy recovery. Focusing on the issues of resolving environmental pollution and finding a clean energy, one integrated project funded by National Science Council in Taiwan since 1998 for 6 years/2 periods was executed and its proposes were to use anaerobic microorganisms to decompose various wastes and regenerate energy through the biodegradation process. The results could be summarized to the study of three different types of substrates (carbohydrate, protein, and lipid), operation of bioreactors, inhibition of products, and isolation of anaerobic hydrogen producing bacteria. The influences of different operational factors on fermentative hydrogen production and photosynthetic hydrogen production were also compared at the end of this paper. We believe that the obtained results will become the essential indices and design criteria of a waste degradation and hydrogen production system, and will further promote its applications in the near future.

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