Approach • Determine the cost and availability of the three candidate biomass feedstocks. • Design a process scheme for the production of hydrogen. • Determine optimal hydrogen production through the testing of various simulation cases. • Analyze research and simulation results to determine technical and economic feasibility. • Determine the commercialization barriers to the production of hydro...

This paper deals with the dynamic modeling of a hydrogen production system using gPROMS. The model includes mass balances, liquid-gas equilibrium relations, mass transfer laws and kinetic reaction equations. The initial reaction mixture is a sodium borohydride solution that reacts via a self-hydrolysis mechanism in the presence of water. The behavior of this system was measured in terms of prod...

Integrating of lignocellulose-based and starch-rich biomass-based hydrogen production was investigated by mixing wheat straw hydrolysate with a wheat grain hydrolysate for improved fermentation. Enzymatic pretreatment and hydrolysis of wheat grains led to a hydrolysate with a sugar concentration of 93.4 g/L, while dilute-acid pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis of wheat straw led to a hydroly...

Microalgae are simple chlorophyll containing organisms, they have high photosynthetic efficiency and can synthesize and accumulate large quantities of carbohydrate biomass. They can be cultivated in fresh water, seawater and wastewater. They have been used as feedstock for producing biodiesel, bioethanol and biogas. The production of these biofuels can be integrated with CO2 mitigation, wastewa...

sulfide production has been one of the most important problems in sewage collection systems that came to be known as an important factor of corrosion in concrete sewerage systems since early 1900. the emission of hydrogen sulfide gas in sewerage conduits creates problems including biological corrosion of concrete, release of repulsive odors in the city environment, as well as the potential dang...

BACKGROUND Biological hydrogen production from lignocellulosic biomass shows great potential as a promising alternative to conventional hydrogen production methods, such as electrolysis of water and coal gasification. Currently, most researches on biohydrogen production from lignocellulose concentrate on consolidated bioprocessing, which has the advantages of simpler operation and lower cost ov...

Since the actual role of Escherichia coli hydrogenases on fermentation from glycerol has not been clear, we evaluated the effect of inactivation of each E. coli hydrogenase on cell growth, hydrogen production, organic acids production, and ethanol production. Inactivation of hydrogenase 2 and hydrogenase 3 reduced cell growth, hydrogen and succinate production as well as glycerol utilization wh...

In recent years, lots of research has been done on effective usage of natural gas; the first step in these processes is conversion of natural gas to Syngas. Natural gas reforming process by refomer furnace is commonly used for syngas and hydrogen production. In this paper, a windows based software, RIPI-RefSim, is introduced. By using proper heat, mass, kinetic and thermodynamic models as w...