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Continuous anaerobic hydrogen and methane production using water hyacinth feedstock

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The water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes, impacts the environment in a number of ways. This study develops a continuous cultivation strategy and investigates the effect of these strategies for hydrogen production in anaerobic sequencing batch reactor (ASBR) and intermittent-continuous stirred tank reactor (I-CSTR) systems using the water hyacinth as feedstock. Glucose (10 g/L) was used as the feedstock to start-up the fermentor using pig slurry seed in a batch model. ASBR with increasing water hyacinth concentration was used as the start-up strategy for hydrogen production. However, the hydrogen performance decreased with increasing water hyacinth concentration. Finally, the metabolic pathway shifted to methane production with no hydrogen. A strategy for controlling the substrate and reaction pH and shortening the hydraulic retention time (HRT) in I-CSTR was used to enhance the hydrogen production. Low hydrogen production performance was achieved with a hydrogen production rate of 1.1 with 82.4mL/L-d methane production rate resulting from the I-CSTR operated using pH 4.0 feedstock and HRT 2days.

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  1. Master Program of Green Energy Science and Technology, Feng Chia University, Taichung, 407, Taiwan

    Chyi-How Lay & Chiu-Yue Lin

  2. Green Energy Development Center, Feng Chia University, Taichung, 407, Taiwan

    Chyi-How Lay & Chiu-Yue Lin

  3. General Education Center, Feng Chia University, Taichung, 407, Taiwan

    Chyi-How Lay

  4. Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Haryana, Gurgaon, 122413, India

    Biswarup Sen

  5. Environmental Resources Laboratory, Department of Landscape Architecture, Chung Chou University of Science and Technology, Changhwa, 510, Taiwan

    Chin-Chao Chen & Chiu-Yue Lin

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Lay, CH., Sen, B., Chen, CC. et al. Continuous anaerobic hydrogen and methane production using water hyacinth feedstock. Arab J Sci Eng 41, 2563–2571 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-016-2035-4

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