Hydrogen production with the microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii grown in a compact tubular photobioreactor immersed in a scattering light nanoparticle suspension

Giannelli, Luca; Torzillo, Giuseppe

doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.08.103

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“…However, once the width increases up to 0.040 m, biohydrogen productivity from green algae C. reinhardtii and C. noctigama reduces to 0.97 mL L −1 h −1 and 0.56 mL L −1 h −1 , respectively (Skjanes, ). In recent pilot‐scale studies where PBRs have a volume from 50 to 100 L, it is found that biohydrogen productivity with C. reinhardtii significantly reduces by 30.4% from 0.56 mL L −1 h −1 for PBR width 0.028 m to 0.17 mL L −1 h −1 when the width increases to 0.049 m (Giannelli and Torzillo, ; Scoma et al, ).…”

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Dynamic modelling of high biomass density cultivation and biohydrogen production in different scales of flat plate photobioreactors

Zhang

Dechatiwongse

Rio‐Chanona

et al. 2015

Biotech & Bioengineering

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This paper investigates the scaling‐up of cyanobacterial biomass cultivation and biohydrogen production from laboratory to industrial scale. Two main aspects are investigated and presented, which to the best of our knowledge have never been addressed, namely the construction of an accurate dynamic model to simulate cyanobacterial photo‐heterotrophic growth and biohydrogen production and the prediction of the maximum biomass and hydrogen production in different scales of photobioreactors. To achieve the current goals, experimental data obtained from a laboratory experimental setup are fitted by a dynamic model. Based on the current model, two key original findings are made in this work. First, it is found that selecting low‐chlorophyll mutants is an efficient way to increase both biomass concentration and hydrogen production particularly in a large scale photobioreactor. Second, the current work proposes that the width of industrial scale photobioreactors should not exceed 0.20 m for biomass cultivation and 0.05 m for biohydrogen production, as severe light attenuation can be induced in the reactor beyond this threshold. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2015;112: 2429–2438. © 2015 The Authors. Biotechnology and Bioengineering Published by Wiley Peiodicals, Inc.

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Dynamic modelling of high biomass density cultivation and biohydrogen production in different scales of flat plate photobioreactors

Zhang

Dechatiwongse

Rio‐Chanona

et al. 2015

Biotech & Bioengineering

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“…Microalgae have gained attention in terms of biohydrogen production (Giannelli and Torzillo 2012). Among these, Chlamydomonas reinhardtti is the model organism because of high biohydrogen production capacity.…”

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Biohydrogen production from engineered microalgae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Köse¹,

Öncel

2014

Advances in Energy Research

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The green microalgae Chlamydomonas reinhardtti is well-known specie in the terms of H 2 production by photo fermentation and has been studying for a long time. Although the H 2 production yield is promising; there are some bottlenecks to enhance the yield and efficiency to focus on a well-designed, sustainable production and also scaling up for further studies. D1 protein of photosystem II (PSII) plays an important role in photosystem damage repair and related to H 2 production. Because Chlamydomonas is the model algae and the genetic basis is well-studied; metabolic engineering tools are intended to use for enhanced production. Mutations are focused on D1 protein which aims long-lasting hydrogen production by blocking the PSII repair system thus O 2 sensitive hydrogenases catalysis hydrogen production for a longer period of time under anaerobic and sulfur deprived conditions. Chlamydomonas CC124 as control strain and D1 mutant strains (D240, D239-40 and D240-41) are cultured photomixotrophically at 80 μmol photons m-2 s-1 , by two sides. Cells are grown in TAP medium as aerobic stage for culture growth; in logarithmic phase cells are transferred from aerobic to an anaerobic and sulfur deprived TAPS medium and 12 mg/L initial chlorophyll content for H 2 production which is monitored by the water columns and later detected by Gas Chromatography. Total produced hydrogen was 82 ± 10, 180 ± 20, 196 ± 20, 290 ± 30 mL for CC124, D240, D239-40, D240-41, respectively. H 2 production rates for mutant strains was 1.3 ± 0.5 mL/L.h meanwhile CC124 showed 2-3 fold lower rate as 0.57 ± 0.2 mL/L.h. Hydrogen production period was 5 ± 2 days for CC124 and mutants showed a longer production time for 9 ± 2 days. It is seen from the results that H 2 productions for mutant strains have a significant effect in terms of productivity, yield and production time.

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“…Such a bioreactor system affords a shielding to limit direct irradiance of the culture by the full solar spectrum, while targeting preferred specific wavelengths towards the system by applying a surface plasmon backscattering effect of selected nanoparticle solutions located within a separate container around the culture flasks. Giannelli and Torzillo [204] reported on C. reinhardtii grown in a novel tubular photobioreactor, where the tubes were immersed in a suspension of silica nanoparticles. Silica nanoparticles were used to scatter the light delivered from an artificial light source in order to achieve a more homogenous light distribution and light dilution through the culture.…”

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“…Silica nanoparticles were used to scatter the light delivered from an artificial light source in order to achieve a more homogenous light distribution and light dilution through the culture. They observed a higher chlorophyll content and hydrogen production from the silica nanoparticle submerged photobioreactor, as compared with the corresponding control [204]. These nanoparticle-assisted approaches have the potential to avoid the ineffective dissipation of the absorbed irradiance that would otherwise lower sunlight energy conversion efficiencies and H 2 -production by the microalgal systems [80,104,116e118].…”

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Microalgal hydrogen production research

Eroğlu

Melis

2016

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

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Available online xxxKeywords: Photobiological hydrogen Microalgae Metabolic engineering Cellular immobilization Integrated bioprocess Photobioreactor a b s t r a c tMicroorganisms can produce hydrogen biologically, with species ranging from photosynthetic and fermentative bacteria to green microalgae and cyanobacteria. In comparison with the conventional chemical or physical hydrogen production methods, biological processes demonstrate several advantages by operating at ambient pressure and temperature conditions, without a requirement for the use of precious metals to catalyze the reactions. In addition to using cellular endogenous substrate from which to extract electrons for H 2 -production, a number of green microalgae are also endowed with the photosynthetic machinery needed to extract electrons from water, the potential energy of which is elevated by two photochemical reactions prior to reducing protons (H þ ) for the generation of molecular hydrogen (H 2 ). Sunlight provides the energy for the microalgal overall strongly endergonic reaction of H 2 O-oxidation, electron-transport, and H 2 -production.Thanks to a substantial amount of research, a number of diverse experimental approaches have been developed and applied to establish and improve sustainable production of hydrogen. This review summarizes and updates recent developments in microalgal hydrogen production research with emphasis on new trends and novel ideas practiced in this field.

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Hydrogen production with the microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii grown in a compact tubular photobioreactor immersed in a scattering light nanoparticle suspension

Cited by 122 publications

References 40 publications

Dynamic modelling of high biomass density cultivation and biohydrogen production in different scales of flat plate photobioreactors

Dynamic modelling of high biomass density cultivation and biohydrogen production in different scales of flat plate photobioreactors

Biohydrogen production from engineered microalgae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Microalgal hydrogen production research

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