• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.668-673
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• 2012

Biohydrogen production from organic wastewater by anaerobically activated sludge fermentation has already been extensively investigated, and it is known that hydrogen can be produced by glucose fermentation through three metabolic pathways, including the oxidative decarboxylation of pyruvic acid to acetyl-CoA, oxidation of NADH to $NAD^+$, and acetogenesis by hydrogen-producing acetogens. However, the exact or dominant pathways of hydrogen production in the anaerobically activated sludge fermentation process have not yet been identified. Thus, a continuous stirred-tank reactor (CSTR) was introduced and a specifically acclimated acidogenic fermentative microflora obtained under certain operation conditions. The hydrogen production activity and potential hydrogen-producing pathways in the acidogenic fermentative microflora were then investigated using batch cultures in Erlenmeyer flasks with a working volume of 500 ml. Based on an initial glucose concentration of 10 g/l, pH 6.0, and a biomass of 1.01 g/l of a mixed liquid volatile suspended solid (MLVSS), 247.7 ml of hydrogen was obtained after a 68 h cultivation period at $35{\pm}1^{\circ}C$. Further tests indicated that 69% of the hydrogen was produced from the oxidative decarboxylation of pyruvic acid, whereas the remaining 31% was from the oxidation of NADH to $NAD^+$. There were no hydrogen-producing acetogens or they were unable to work effectively in the anaerobically activated sludge with a hydraulic retention time (HRT) of less than 8 h.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.25-33
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• 2018

화석 연료의 고갈과 온난화 현상으로 인해 새로운 에너지원에 대한 관심이 급증하고 있다. 그 중에서 바이오가스는 유기성 폐기물 및 바이오매스를 혐기성 소화과정인 가수분해(hydrolysis), 산발효(acidogenesis), 유기산발효(acetogenesis), 메탄발효(methanogenesis)의 단계를 거쳐 발생되기 때문에 친환경적인 에너지자원으로 각광받고 있다. 그러나 바이오가스는 기존의 정제설비로는 제거할 수 없는 높은 미세분진 및 수분 함량으로 인해, 직접연소, 도시가스, 자동차용 연료 등 효율적인 이용을 위해서 정제시스템이 필요하다. 따라서 본 연구는 미세분진과 수분을 동시에 제거할 수 있는 정제과정의 전처리 방법으로써 원심력을 이용하는 냉각공정을 설계하였다. 원심력을 이용하여 분진을 제거하는 Cyclone 내 외부에 열교환기와 ID fan을 구성하여 주입되는 가스를 어는점 이하로 냉각시킴으로써 물안개를 형성시켜 분진입자를 제거하고, 일부 가스를 ID fan을 이용하여 재순환시켜 제거하는 고효율 냉각제어공정을 개발하였다. 수분제거는 유량(25~150L/min) 및 상대습도(60~95%)의 조건에서 시험하였다. 수분제거율은 상대습도 $95{\pm}5%$일 때 평균 80.8%, 입자제거율은 입자크기 $2.5{\mu}m$에서 평균 99.78%의 제거효율을 보였고, 수분과 입자의 동시제거효율은 수분 70.86%, 입자 99.67%의 평균값을 보여주었다.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.1-17
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• 2020

With benefits to the human health, environment, economy, and energy, anaerobic digestion (AD) systems have attracted remarkable attention within the scientific community. Anaerobic digestion system is created from (bio)reactors to perform a series of bi-metabolism steps including hydrolysis/acidogenesis, acetogenesis, and methanogenesis. By considering the physical separation of the digestion steps above, AD systems can be classified into single-stage (all digestion steps in one reactor) and multi-stage (digestion steps in various reactors). Operation of the AD systems does not only depend on the type of digestion system but also relies on the interaction among growth factors (temperature, pH, and nutrients), the type of reactor, and operating parameters (retention time, organic loading rate). However, these interactions were often reviewed inadequately for the single-stage digestion systems. Therefore, this paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of both single-stage and multi-stage systems as well as the influence of the growth factors, operating conditions, and the type of reactor on them. From those points, the advantages, disadvantages, and application range of each system are well understood.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.30-35
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• 1996

Distillery wastewater was used in a thermophilic laboratory-scale two stage anaerobic digester to test the effects of the redox potential of the first acidogenic reactor on the performance of the system. The digester consisted of first a acidogenic reactor and the an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor. The digestor was operated at a hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 48 h. Under these conditions, about 90% of the chemical oxygen demand as measured by the chromate method ($COD_{cr}$) was removed with a gas production yield of 0.4 l/g-COD removed. The redox potential of the acidogenic reactor was increased when the reactor was purged with nitrogen gas or agitation speed was increased. The increase in reduction potential was accompanied by an increase in acetate production and a decrease in butyrate formation. A similar trend was observed when a small amount of air was introduced into the acidogenic reactor. It is believed that the hydrogen partial pressure in the acidogenic reactor was decreased by the above mentioned treatments. The possible failure of anaerobic digestion processes due to over-loading could be avoided by the above mentioned treatments.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.181-190
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• 2005

Severe loss or hydrogen occurred in most anaerobic hydrogen fermentation reactors. Several selected methods were applied to suppress the consumption of hydrogen and increase the potential of production. As the first trial, pH shock was applied. The pH of reactor was dropped nearly to 3.0 by stopping alkalinity supply and on]y feeding glucose (5 g/L-d). As the pH was increase to $4.8{\pm}0.2,$ the degradation pathway was derived to solventogenesis resulting in disappearance of hydrogen in the headspace. In the aspect of bacterial community, methanogens weren't detected after 22 and 35 day, respectively. Even though, however, there was no methanogenic bacterium detected with fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH) method, hydrogen loss still occurred in the reactor showing a continuous increase of acetate when the pH was increased to $5.5{\pm}0.2$. This result was suggesting the possibility of the survival of spore fanning acetogenic bacteria enduring the severely acidic pH. As an alternative and additive method, nitrate was added in a batch experiment. It resulted in the increase of maximum hydrogen fraction from 29 (blank) to 61 % $(500\;mg\;NO_3/L)$. However, unfortunately, the loss of hydrogen occurred right after the depletion of nitrate by denitrification. In order to prevent the loss entangled with acetate formation, $CO_2$ scavenging in the headspace was applied to the hydrogen fermentation with heat-treated sludge since it was the primer of acetogenesis. As the $CO_2$ scavenging was applied, the maximum fraction of hydrogen was enhanced from 68 % to 87 %. And the loss of hydrogen could be protected effectively.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.961-965
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• 2007

In this study, degradation of carbohydrates and composition of fermentative products were investigated in semi-continuous acid fermenter varying hydraulic retention time (HRT). Rice soup was used as a sole substrate for the acid fermentation. Solubilization efficiency of the substrate was higher than 70% for all HRT, however the gas conversion was ignorable implying that most of organic contents in the influent remained in the form of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) and ethanol after acid fermentation. The VFAs were the predominant product and the VFAs conversion increased as the HRT decreased. The VFAs conversion reached the maximum value at 12 hr HRT accounting for 70% of the influent COD. Similar to VFAs, ethanol conversion was increased with the decrease of HRT and the maximum ethanol conversion efficiency was 8% at the HRT of 12 hr. Composition of VFAs was markedly dependent on HRT. As HRT increased, the composition of acetic acid was increased as a product of acetogenesis from butyrate, valerate and ethanol. This study demonstrated that HRT affected acid fermentation of a carbohydrate containing organic wastes producing VFAs and ethanol which could be effectively used to compensate the lack of carbon in wastewater for biological nutrient removal.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제22권10호
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• pp.1869-1879
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• 2000

혐기성 소화공정 중 생성되는 주요 중간대사산물인 프로피온산의 분해대사에 대한 연구중 에탄올과의 산화 환원 반응인 coupling 반응으로써 혐기성 소화공정에서 프로피온산 축적을 저감시킬 수 있는 연구를 수행하였다. 따라서, 본 연구는 혐기성 공정에서 프로피온산의 전환에 따른 동력학적 반응과 에탄올과의 상호 반응에 따른 특정기질 선호영향을 모델에 적용하여 살펴보았다. 본 연구는 4단계의 실험으로 수행되었다. 1, 2, 3단계는 각기 다른 기질에 순화된 미생물들을 이용하여 프로피온산 1 g COD/L와 에탄올의 농도를 각각 0, 100, 200, 400과 1,000 mg/L로 주입하여 프로피온산과 에탄올의 혐기성 분해과정을 비교 연구하였으며, 4단계에서는 Glu-MCR과 HPr-MCR의 순화미생물의 혼합비를 조절하여 프로피온산 1 g COD/L를 주입하였을 때의 혐기성 분해를 연구하였다. 본 연구에서는 수정된 경쟁적 모델을 이용하여 특정기질 선호현상을 규명하였고, 에탄올 농도의 증가에 따라 아세트산 형성반응의 $K_{s2}$값의 증가와 메탄화 과정에서의 아세트산 생성 및 분해과정에 해당되는 $K_3$값이 일부 증가하는 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 또한 순화미생물들에 따라 프로피온산과 에탄올의 분해에 미치는 영향이 다른 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제48권2호
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• pp.125-133
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• 2012

혐기성 소화는 음식물 쓰레기와 같은 폐기물로부터 재생 가능한 에너지원으로 메탄을 생성하는 공정이다. 본 연구에서는 음식물 쓰레기와 폐수를 동시에 처리하는 3단계 메탄생산 공정을 이용한 혐기성 소화공정의 bacteria와 archaea 군집 변화를 조사하였다. 3단계 메탄생산 공정은 음식물 쓰레기 및 폐수를 메탄과 이산화탄소로 전환하는 반혐기성 가수분해/산생성, 혐기성 산생성과 혐기성 메탄생성조로 구성되어있으며, 16 rRNA 유전자 라이브러리의 염기서열 분석과 정량 PCR 등의 분자생물학적 방법으로 주요 미생물 군집을 조사하였다. 메탄생산 공정의 주요 미생물 군집은 VFA-산화 박테리아와 Methanoculleus 속에 속하는 hydrogenotrophic methanogen의 두 종(species)이었다. 또한, 소수의 Picrophilaceae 과(Thermoplasmatales 목)의 archaea도 확인하였다. 음식물을 이용한 3단계 메탄생산 공정은 acetogenesis를 기반으로 하는 고전적 메탄생성 공정과 달리 주로 hydrogenotrophic methanogen의 분해 경로에 의해 이루어 짐을 알 수 있다. 이들 균주의 우점은 중온 소화공정, 중성 pH, 높은 암모니아 농도, 짧은 HRT, Tepidanaerobacter 속 등과 같은 VFA 산화세균과의 상호작용 등에서 기인한 것으로 생각된다.