Microbial responses to various process disturbances in a continuous hydrogen reactor fed with galactose

Gopalakrishnan Kumar, Jeong Hoon Park, Periyasamy Sivagurunathan, Sang Hoon Lee, Hee Deung Park, Sang Hyoun Kim

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Abstract

In this study, microbial responses of a continuous hydrogen reactor fed with galactose have been investigated. Process disturbances reduced H2 production performance as well as large fluctuations in microbial diversity. The peak values of the hydrogen yield (HY) was not influenced greatly during the steady state period, and accounted as 2.01 ± 0.05 and 2.14 ± 0.03 mol/mol galactoseadded, while hydraulic retention time (HRT) was at 12 and 8 h, respectively. Microbial community analysis via 454 pyrosequencing revealed that functional redundancy following changes in the microbial community distribution led to the stability of the fermentation performance. The butyrate to acetate (B/A) ratio well correlated with changes in the microbial community. The energy generation rate and energy yield resulted in the peak values of 134 kJ/L-d and 612 kJ/moladded.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)216-222
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Bioscience and Bioengineering
Volume123
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017 Feb 1

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIP) (No. 2014R1A2A2A04005475).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The Society for Biotechnology, Japan

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Biotechnology
  • Bioengineering
  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

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