Evaluation of the stability of hydrogen production and microbial diversity by anaerobic sludge with chloroform treatment

Yan-Yan Ning, Da-Wei Jin, Guo-Ping Sheng, Hideki Harada and Xian-Yang Shi

Renewable Energy, 2012, vol. 38, issue 1, 253-257

Abstract: The stability of biological H2 production and microbial diversity by anaerobic sludge treated chloroform with different concentrations were investigated in this work. Taking into account the cumulative H2 production, H2 percentage, maximum H2 production rate, H2 yield and substrate utilization efficiency together, 0.050% of CHCl3 concentration was found to be appropriate for enhancing anaerobic H2 production. The repeated batch tests revealed a good stability of H2 production with the inocula treated by chloroform at different concentrations. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis demonstrates that CHCl3 showed desirable selective inhibition on methanogens, rather than H2-producing bacteria. The favorable microbial communities for fermentative H2 production by anaerobic sludge were uncultured bacterium clones nbt176c01, Janthinobacterium sp.7, Megasphaera paucivorans strain VTT E−03234, Clostridium cellulosi strain D3 and Clostridium sp. HPB-4.

Keywords: Anaerobic H2 production; CHCl3 treatment; PCR-DGGE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.07.038

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