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The Fermentative Hydrogen Production in Trickling Bed Biofilter Filled with Hydrophilic-and Hydrophobic-Media  

Jeon, Byung-Seung (Korea Institute of Science and Technology)
Lee, Sun-Mi (Korea Institute of Science and Technology)
Kim, Yong-Hwan (Kwang Woon University)
Gu, Man-Bock (Korea University)
Chae, Hee-Jeong (Dept. Chemical Engineering, Hoseo University)
Sang, Byoung-In (Korea Institute of Science and Technology)
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Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society / v.17, no.4, 2006 , pp. 379-388 More about this Journal
Abstract
Two mesophilic trickling bed bioreactors filled with two different types of media, hydrophilic- and hydrophobic-cubes, were designed and conducted for hydrogen production under the anaerobic fermentation of sucrose. Each bioreactor consisted of the column packed with polymeric cubes and inoculated with heat-treated sludge obtained from anaerobic digestion tank. A defined medium containing sucrose was fed by the different hydraulic retention time(HRT), and recycle rate. Hydrogen concentrations in gas-phase were constant, averaging 40% of biogas throughout the operation. Hydrogen production rate was increased till $10.5\;L{\cdot}h^{-1}{\cdot}L^{-1}$ of bioreactor when influent sucrose concentrations and recycle rates were varied. At the same time, the hydrogen production rate with hydrophobic media application was higher than its hydrophilic media application. No methane was detected when the reactor was under a normal operation. The major fermentation by-products in the liquid effluent of the both trickling biofilters were acetate, butyrate and lactate. In order to run in the long term operation of both reactor filled with hydrophilic and hydrophobic media, biofilm accumulation on hydrophilic media and biogas produced should be controlled through some process such as periodical backwashing or gas-purging. Four sample were collected from each reactor on the opposite hydrogen production rate, and their bacterial communities were compared by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis of PCR products generated using bacterial 16s rRNA gene primers (8f and 926r). It was expressed a marked difference in bacterial communities of both reactors. The trickling bed bioreactor with hydrophobic media demonstrates the feasibility of the process to produce hydrogen gas. A likely application of this reactor technology can be hydrogen gas recovery from pre-treatment of high carbohydrate-containing wastewaters.
Keywords
hydrophilic; hydrophobic; T-RFLP; HRT; substrate concen; tration;
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