Publicação: Acidic and thermal pre-treatments for anaerobic digestion inoculum to improve hydrogen and volatile fatty acid production using xylose as the substrate
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Xylose is a by-product of lignocellulosic biomass processing for production of second-generation biofuels and could be suitable for bioproduct manufacturing. This paper describes an innovative approach that enables the system to achieve high yielding for hydrogen production. The study compared 4 physicochemical pre-treatments performed in an anaerobic mixed culture (acidic, thermal, acidic-thermal and thermal acidic) to achieve an inoculum with a high-efficiency xylose to hydrogen conversion under mesophilic conditions (30 °C). The acidic pre-treatment was the most efficient to select microorganisms able to produce hydrogen and volatile acid from xylose. Kinetics has shown that acidic pre-treatment had a hydrogen/xylose molar yielding factor of 1.57 (molar base) and a hydrogen maximum production rate of 253 mL H2 h−1. Mass balance considered all possible metabolic pathways using xylose as a substrate. Anaerobic degradation of ethanol was the most active pathway for hydrogen production in all experiments, except for the control. Each pre-treatment performed for the original inoculum resulted in different microbiological profiles, but the genus Clostridium was the most abundant in all assays. Acidic pre-treatment stimulated the growth of organisms from the genera Peptostreptococcaceae, Truepera and Kurthia, which could be related to the better results in hydrogen production found in this condition.
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Acidogenesis, Anaerobic, Biohydrogen, Dark fermentation, Kinetics
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Renewable Energy, v. 145, p. 1388-1398.
