Continuous biohydrogen production from liquid swine manure supplemented with glucose using an anaerobic sequencing batch reactor

Xiao Wu, Jun Zhu, Chunying Dong, Curt Miller, Yecong Li, Liang Wang, Wanying Yao

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Abstract

Liquid swine manure supplemented with glucose (10 g/L) was used as substrate for hydrogen production using an anaerobic sequencing batch reactor at 37 ± 1 °C and pH 5.0 under different hydraulic retention times (HRTs). Decreasing HRT from 24 to 8 h caused an increasing hydrogen production rate from 0.05 to 0.15 L/h/L. Production rates of both total biogas and hydrogen were linearly correlated to HRT with R2 being 0.993 and 0.997, respectively. The hydrogen yield ranged between 1.18 and 1.63 mol-H2/mol glucose and the 12 h HRT was preferred for high production rate and efficient yield. For all the five HRTs examined, the glucose utilization efficiency was over 98%. The biogas mainly consisted of carbon dioxide and hydrogen (up to 43%) with no methane detected throughout the experiment. Ethanol and organic acids were the major aqueous metabolites produced during fermentation, with acetic acid accounting for 56-58%. The hydrogen yield was found to be related to the acetate/butyrate ratio.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)6636-6645
Number of pages10
JournalInternational Journal of Hydrogen Energy
Volume34
Issue number16
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2009

Keywords

  • Dark fermentation
  • Hydraulic retention time (HRT)
  • Hydrogen production rate
  • Hydrogen yield
  • Liquid swine manure
  • Sludge granulation

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