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Biohydrogen from Distillery Wastewater: Opportunities and Feasibility

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Organic Waste to Biohydrogen

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Abstract

Energy recovery from industrial wastewaters has gained focus in the recent years in the context of emerging concept of circular economy. Techniques involving recovery of energy during remediation of wastewaters using microorganisms are coming up as an advancement to the traditional wastewater treatment processes that themselves have high-energy demand. Production of hydrogen from organically rich wastewaters by using various microorganisms through light-dependent or dark fermentation pathways is of great interest since hydrogen is being viewed as the next-generation fuel that has high-energy content without carbon emissions. This chapter critically reviews the potential of biohydrogen production from distillery wastewater that is one of the most polluted industrial wastewaters due to its high organic load. Microbial cultures and mixed microbial consortia have shown the capability to produce hydrogen from the effluent by degrading the organic matter. The role of various operational parameters in the process efficiency in batch mode and continuous mode and adopting of inoculum pre-treatment strategies to eliminate other microbial competitors from mixed inoculum for enhanced hydrogen production are being discussed. The limitations and challenges faced by this technology, particularly in application at large scale, are discussed along with possible strategies to address the same.

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  1. University School of Environment Management, GGS Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India

    Anubha Kaushik

  2. Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India

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  3. Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

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Kaushik, A., Mona, S., Preet, R. (2022). Biohydrogen from Distillery Wastewater: Opportunities and Feasibility. In: Kuddus, M., Yunus, G., Ramteke, P.W., Molina, G. (eds) Organic Waste to Biohydrogen. Clean Energy Production Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1995-4_4

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