Fermentative Production of Hydrogen
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A5: Hydrogen Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 July 2019) | Viewed by 190
Special Issue Editors
Interests: utilisation of biological resources for the fermentative production of renewable energy fuels/carriers particularly biohydrogen and biobutanol; bio-electrochemical systems, e.g., microbial fuel cells for wastewater treatment/electricity production and for production of renewable chemicals; process optimisation of bioreactor systems for the production of biological products
Interests: My research interests involve adapting microbial processes to produce fuel, particularly hydrogen, and other useful compounds from waste materials and biomass. I develop anaerobic digestion methodologies than can cope with ‘real world’, structurally complex biomass types including, food waste, crop residues and wastewater biosolids. I also collaborate with my colleagues in the Sustainable Environment Research Centre (SERC) on novel ways to integrate anaerobic digestion with emerging bio-energy technologies such as microbial fuel cells, microbial electrolysis cells and electrochemical separation.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Hydrogen is deemed to be the energy vector of the future given its high energy content, environmental-friendliness and easy conversion to electricity. End-use applications are increasingly being demonstrated, e.g. the recently unveiled hydrogen-powered train and a number of hydrogen-powered buses in various cities around the world. For sustainability however, hydrogen needs to be produced from renewable substrates. This Special Issue will provide an update on the latest research on fermentative hydrogen production. Articles (both research and review articles) are invited, covering all aspects of fermentative hydrogen production (dark and/or photosynthetic) from inoculum development/strain improvement, to feedstock deconstruction, bioprocess optimisation, scale up, etc.
Dr. Godfrey Kyazze
Dr. Jamie Massanet-Nicolau
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Dark fermentation for hydrogen production
- Two stage dark and photofermentation for hydrogen production
- Microbial electrolysis cells for hydrogen production
- Bioprocess design
- Wastewater treatment
- Feedstock for hydrogen production—choice/pretreatment
- Online monitoring and control of hydrogen bioreactors
- Strains for hydrogen production—selection/enrichment, and improvement, e.g. via synthetic biology
- Modeling fermentative processes for hydrogen production
- Optimisation of process conditions
- Scale-up of biohydrogen reactors
