Valorisation of wastepaper using the fibrolytic/hydrogen producing bacterium Ruminococcus albus.
Valorisation of wastepaper using the fibrolytic/hydrogen producing bacterium Ruminococcus albus.
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使用纤维溶解/产氢细菌白色瘤胃球菌对废纸进行增值。
DOI:
10.1016/j.biortech.2009.06.019
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发表时间:
2009
影响因子:
11.4
通讯作者:
M. Kornaros
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作者:
I. Ntaikou;E. Koutros;M. Kornaros
The present study aimed to investigate the biotransformation of different kinds of wastepaper to hydrogen by the fibrotylic bacterium Ruminococcus albus. Five different types i.e. paper tissue, office paper, illustrated magazine paper, paperboard and newspaper, were selected as representatives of the most common types of wastepaper found in municipal solid wastes. The percentage of total carbohydrates measured as glucose equivalents, ranged from 50% to 100% (w/w), whereas the bioconversion by R. albus ranged from 18% to 100% of their initial weigh. The only metabolic products detected in all cases were acetate, ethanol, formate, hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The hydrogen yields ranged from 46 to 280L H2/kg paper, indicating that wastepaper could be a promising candidate for second generation biohydrogen production. Subsequently, hydrolysis was investigated for paper tissue and paperboard. It was shown that in both cases the degradation process could be satisfactory described by zero order kinetics and it was identified to be the rate limiting step for the whole process, controlling biomass growth and metabolites generation rate.