Two-stage photo-biological production of hydrogen by marine green alga Platymonas subcordiformis
By Y. Guan, Maicun Deng, Xingju Yu. 2004
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Abstract A marine green alga, Platymonas subcordiformis , was demonstrated to photobiologically evolve hydrogen (H 2 ) after the first stage of photosynthesis, when subjected to a two-phase incubation protocol in a second stage of H 2 production: anaerobic incubation in the dark followed by the exposure to light illumination. The anaerobic incubation induced hydrogenase activity to catalyse H 2 evolution in the following phase of light illumination. H 2 evolution strongly depended upon the duration of anaerobic incubation, deprivation of sulphur (S) from the medium and the medium pH. An optimal anaerobic incubation period of 32 h gave the maximum H 2 evolution in the second phase in the absence of sulphur. Evolution of H 2 was greatly enhanced by 13 times when S was deprived from the medium. This result suggests that S plays a critical role in the mediation of H 2 evolution from P. subcordiformis . A 14-fold increase in H 2 production was obtained when the medium pH increased from 5 to 8; with a sharp decline at pH above eight. H 2 evolution was enhanced by 30–50% when supplementing the optimal concentrations of 25 mM acetate and 37.5 mM glucose.
Subfields: Ecology, Oceanography, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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- Hydrogen Production from Semiconductor-based Photocatalysis via Water Splitting (2012, background): “hand, water is transformed into hydrogen and oxygen in the presence of light by cyanobacteria or green algae with the help of a special enzyme such as hydrogenase or nitrogenase, as illustrated in Equations 7 and 8 [16,17].”