title: Photo-fermentative hydrogen production from crop residue: A mini review.
abstract: Photofermentative hydrogen production from crop residues, if feasible, can lead to complete conversion of organic substances to hydrogen (and carbon dioxide). This mini review lists the studies on photofermentative hydrogen production using crop residues as feedstock. Pretreatment methods, substrate structure, mechanism of photosynthetic bacteria growth and metabolism were discussed. Photofermentative hydrogen production from pure culture, consortia and mutants, and the geometry, light sources, mass transfer resistances and the operational strategies of the photo-bioreactor were herein reviewed. Future studies of regulation mechanism of photosynthetic bacteria, such as highly-efficient strain breeding and gene reconstruction, and development of new-generation photo-bioreactor were suggested.
authors.affiliation: Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomass Energy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, PR China.
authors.forename: Quanguo
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomass Energy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, PR China.
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomass Energy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, PR China.
authors.forename: Zhiping
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomass Energy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, PR China; Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10607, Taiwan. Electronic address: djlee@ntu.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Duu-Jong
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomass Energy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, PR China.
authors.forename: Xuehua
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomass Energy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, PR China.
authors.forename: Yanyan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jing
authors.affiliation: Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University/Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, 1680 Madison Ave., Wooster, OH 44691-4096, USA.
authors.forename: Xumeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ge
authors.affiliation: Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomass Energy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, PR China.
authors.forename: Danping
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomass Energy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, PR China.
authors.forename: Jianjun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomass Energy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, PR China.
authors.forename: Chao
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: He
mesh_terms: D056804:Biofuels; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D004867:Equipment Design; D005285:Fermentation; D006859:Hydrogen / Q000378:metabolism*; D008027:Light; D059013:Microbial Consortia / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D009154:Mutation; D058433:Photobioreactors; D010788:Photosynthesis
chemical_list: D056804:Biofuels; D006859:Hydrogen
keywords: Bio-hydrogen; Crop residues; Photofermentation; Photosynthetic bacteria; Pretreatment