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Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering >> 2009, Volume 3, Issue 4 doi: 10.1007/s11783-009-0148-7

Biological hydrogen production from organic wastewater by dark fermentation in China: Overview and prospects

1.State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resources and Environments (SKLUWRE), Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China; 2.2010-01-14 14:57:07;

Available online: 2009-12-05

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Abstract

Biological hydrogen production by dark fermentation is an important part of biological hydrogen production technologies. China is a typical developing country that heavily relies on fossil fuels; thus, new, clean, and sustainable energy development turns quite urgent. It is delightful that Chinese government has already drawn up several H2 development policies since 1990s and provided financial aid to launch some H development projects. In this paper, the research status on dark fermentative hydrogen production in China was summarized and analyzed. Subsequently, several new findings and achievements, with some of which transformed into scale-up tests, were highlighted. Moreover, some prospecting coupling processes with dark fermentation of hydrogen production were also proposed to attract more research interests in the future.

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