title: Simultaneous hydrogen and ethanol production from cascade utilization of mono-substrate in integrated dark and photo-fermentative reactor.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Integrating hydrogen-producing bacteria with complementary capabilities, dark-fermentative bacteria (DFB) and photo-fermentative bacteria (PFB), is a promising way to completely recover bioenergy from waste biomass. However, the current coupled models always suffer from complicated pretreatment of the effluent from dark-fermentation or imbalance between dark and photo-fermentation, respectively. In this work, an integrated dark and photo-fermentative reactor (IDPFR) was developed to completely convert an organic substrate into bioenergy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the IDPFR, Ethanoligenens harbinese B49 and Rhodopseudomonas faecalis RLD-53 were separated by a membrane into dark and photo chambers, while the acetate produced by E. harbinese B49 in the dark chamber could freely pass through the membrane into the photo chamber and serve as a carbon source for R. faecalis RLD-53. The hydrogen yield increased with increasing working volume of the photo chamber, and reached 3.38 mol H2/mol glucose at the dark-to-photo chamber ratio of 1:4. Hydrogen production by the IDPFR was also significantly affected by phosphate buffer concentration, glucose concentration, and ratio of dark-photo bacteria. The maximum hydrogen yield (4.96 mol H2/mol glucose) was obtained at a phosphate buffer concentration of 20 mmol/L, a glucose concentration of 8 g/L, and a ratio of dark to photo bacteria of 1:20. As the glucose and acetate were used up by E. harbinese B49 and R. faecalis RLD-53, ethanol produced by E. harbinese B49 was the sole end-product in the effluent from the IDPFR, and the ethanol concentration was 36.53 mmol/L with an ethanol yield of 0.82 mol ethanol/mol glucose.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results indicated that the IDPFR not only circumvented complex pretreatments on the effluent in the two-stage process, but also overcame the imbalance of growth and metabolic rate between DFB and PFB in the co-culture process, and effectively enhanced cooperation between E. harbinense B49 and R. faecalis RLD-53. Moreover, simultaneous hydrogen and ethanol production were achieved by coupling E. harbinese B49 and R. faecalis RLD-53 in the IDPFR. According to stoichiometry, the hydrogen and ethanol production efficiencies were 82.67% and 82.19%, respectively. Therefore, IDPFR was an effective strategy for coupling DFB and PFB to fulfill efficient energy recovery from waste biomass.
authors: State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090 China.
authors: Bing-Feng
authors: BF
authors: Liu
authors: State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090 China ; Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072 Australia.
authors: Guo-Jun
authors: GJ
authors: Xie
authors: State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090 China.
authors: Rui-Qing
authors: RQ
authors: Wang
authors: State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090 China.
authors: De-Feng
authors: DF
authors: Xing
authors: State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090 China.
authors: Jie
authors: J
authors: Ding
authors: Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072 Australia.
authors: Xu
authors: X
authors: Zhou
authors: State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090 China.
authors: Hong-Yu
authors: HY
authors: Ren
authors: State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090 China.
authors: Chao
authors: C
authors: Ma
authors: State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090 China.
authors: Nan-Qi
authors: NQ
authors: Ren
keywords: Dark-fermentation; Ethanol production; Hydrogen production; Integrated dark and photo-fermentative reactor; Kinetics; Membrane; Photo-fermentation
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