Abstract
More than half of municipal waste is biowaste, consisting of the kitchen, food, and garden waste. This type of waste is continuously growing. The biowaste poses a threat to the environment, public health, and the economy of each country if it has not been treated effectively. In order to reduce their daily volumes and their impacts, the microbiological degradation of these wastes using certain well-selected microbes that produce hydrogen is a new global trend that helps achieve previous goals. This chapter presents the different types of microbes and their roles in the conversion of biowaste into hydrogen, as well as the biological and biochemical mechanisms that ensure this conversion. We have also gathered in this chapter a comparison between the three current methods of hydrogen production by microbial degradation (microbial photofermentation, microbial dark fermentation, and two-stage fermentation) and the new discoveries, which make it possible to improve this trend.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Adessi A, Corneli E, De Philippis R (2017) Photosynthetic purple non sulfur bacteria in hydrogen producing systems: new approaches in the use of well known and innovative substrates. In: Hallenbeck PC (ed) Modern topics in the phototrophic prokaryotes. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 321–350. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46261-5_10
Akbari L, Mahmoodzadeh Vaziri B (2017) Comprehensive modeling of photo-fermentation process for prediction of hydrogen production. Int J Hydrog Energy 42:14449–14457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2017.04.119
Anam K, Habibi MS, Harwati TU, Susilaningsih D (2012) Photofermentative hydrogen production using Rhodobium marinum from bagasse and soy sauce wastewater. Int J Hydrog Energy 37:15436–15442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.06.076
Arumugam A, Sandhya M, Ponnusami V (2014) Biohydrogen and polyhydroxyalkanoate co-production by Enterobacter aerogenes and Rhodobacter sphaeroides from Calophyllum inophyllum oil cake. Bioresour Technol 164:170–176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2014.04.104
Awasthi MK, Pandey AK, Khan J, Bundela PS, Wong JWC, Selvam A (2014) Evaluation of thermophilic fungal consortium for organic municipal solid waste composting. Bioresour Technol 168:214–221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2014.01.048
Balachandar G, Roy S, Das D (2016) Production process via fermentation. In: Stolten D, Emonts B (eds) Hydrogen science and engineering: materials, processes, systems and technology. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, pp 417–438. https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527674268.ch18
Bhatia SK, Joo H-S, Yang Y-H (2018) Biowaste-to-bioenergy using biological methods—a mini-review. Energy Convers Manag 177:640–660. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2018.09.090
Bianchi L, Mannelli F, Viti C, Adessi A, De Philippis R (2010) Hydrogen-producing purple non-sulfur bacteria isolated from the trophic lake Averno (Naples, Italy). Int J Hydrog Energy 35:12216–12223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.08.038
Boelens J, De Wilde B, De Baere L (1996) Comparative study on biowaste definition: effects on biowaste collection. Composting process and compost quality. Compost Sci Util 4:60–72. https://doi.org/10.1080/1065657X.1996.10701819
Bundhoo MAZ, Mohee R, Hassan MA (2015) Effects of pre-treatment technologies on dark fermentative biohydrogen production: a review. J Environ Manag 157:20–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.04.006
Cai G, Jin B, Saint C, Monis P (2010) Metabolic flux analysis of hydrogen production network by Clostridium butyricum W5: effect of pH and glucose concentrations. Int J Hydrog Energy 35:6681–6690. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.04.097
Chandrasekhar K, Lee Y-J, Lee D-W (2015) Biohydrogen production: strategies to improve process efficiency through microbial routes. Int J Mol Sci 16:8266–8293. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms16048266
Chen C-C, Chuang Y-S, Lin C-Y, Lay C-H, Sen B (2012) Thermophilic dark fermentation of untreated rice straw using mixed cultures for hydrogen production. Int J Hydrog Energy 37:15540–15546. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.01.036
Chou C-J, Jenney FE, Adams MWW, Kelly RM (2008) Hydrogenesis in hyperthermophilic microorganisms: implications for biofuels. Metab Eng 10:394–404. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2008.06.007
Das SR, Basak N (2020) Molecular biohydrogen production by dark and photo fermentation from wastes containing starch: recent advancement and future perspective. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 44:1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00449-020-02422-5
Dugmore TIJ, Clark JH, Bustamante J, Houghton JA, Matharu AS (2017) Valorisation of biowastes for the production of green materials using chemical methods. Top Curr Chem 375:46. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41061-017-0133-8
Fricke K, Heußner C, Hüttner A, Turk T (2017) Recycling of biowaste: experience with collection, digestion, and quality in Germany. In: Maletz R, Dornack C, Ziyang L (eds) Source separation and recycling. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 175–175. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2017_34
Gadhamshetty V, Sukumaran A, Nirmalakhandan N, Theinmyint M (2008) Photofermentation of malate for biohydrogen production—a modeling approach. Int J Hydrog Energy 33:2138–2146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2008.02.046
Garcia-Garcia G, Woolley E, Rahimifard S, Colwill J, White R, Needham L (2017) A methodology for sustainable management of food waste. Waste Biomass Valoriz 8:2209–2227. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-016-9720-0
Gellens V, Boelens J, Verstraete W (1995) Source separation, selective collection and in reactor digestion of biowaste. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 67:79–89. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00872196
Ghimire A, Frunzo L, Pontoni L, d’Antonio G, Lens PNL, Esposito G, Pirozzi F (2015) Dark fermentation of complex waste biomass for biohydrogen production by pretreated thermophilic anaerobic digestate. J Environ Manag 152:43–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.12.049
Ghosh D, Sobro IF, Hallenbeck PC (2012) Stoichiometric conversion of biodiesel derived crude glycerol to hydrogen: response surface methodology study of the effects of light intensity and crude glycerol and glutamate concentration. Bioresour Technol 106:154–160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2011.12.021
Golomysova A, Gomelsky M, Ivanov PS (2010) Flux balance analysis of photoheterotrophic growth of purple nonsulfur bacteria relevant to biohydrogen production. Int J Hydrog Energy 35:12751–12760. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.08.133
Hädicke O, Grammel H, Klamt S (2011) Metabolic network modeling of redox balancing and biohydrogen production in purple nonsulfur bacteria. BMC Syst Biol 5:150. https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-0509-5-150
Hallenbeck PC (2005) Fundamentals of the fermentative production of hydrogen. Water Sci Technol 52:21–29. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2005.0494
Hallenbeck PC, Liu Y (2016a) Recent advances in hydrogen production by photosynthetic bacteria. Int J Hydrog Energy 41:4446–4454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2015.11.090
Hallenbeck PC, Liu Y (2016b) Recent advances in hydrogen production by photosynthetic bacteria. Int J Hydrog Energy 41:4446–4454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2015.11.090
Han H, Jia Q, Liu B, Yang H, Shen J (2013) Fermentative hydrogen production from acetate using Rhodobacter sphaeroides RV. Int J Hydrog Energy 38:10773–10778. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2013.02.134
Hanc A, Novak P, Dvorak M, Habart J, Svehla P (2011) Composition and parameters of household bio-waste in four seasons. Waste Manag 31:1450–1460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2011.02.016
Hay JXW, Wu TY, Juan JC, Jahim JM (2013) Biohydrogen production through photo fermentation or dark fermentation using waste as a substrate: overview, economics, and future prospects of hydrogen usage. Biofuels Bioprod Biorefin 7:334–352. https://doi.org/10.1002/bbb.1403
Hirano K, Kurosaki M, Nihei S, Hasegawa H, Shinoda S, Haruki M, Hirano N (2016) Enzymatic diversity of the Clostridium thermocellum cellulosome is crucial for the degradation of crystalline cellulose and plant biomass. Sci Rep 6:35709. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep35709
Jen CJ, Chou C-H, Hsu P-C, Yu S-J, Chen W-E, Lay J-J, Huang C-C, Wen F-S (2007) Flow-FISH analysis and isolation of clostridial strains in an anaerobic semi-solid bio-hydrogen producing system by hydrogenase gene target. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 74:1126–1134. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-006-0740-8
Kapdan IK, Kargi F, Oztekin R, Argun H (2009) Bio-hydrogen production from acid hydrolyzed wheat starch by photo-fermentation using different Rhodobacter sp. Int J Hydrog Energy 34:2201–2207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.01.017
Kim JK, Nhat L, Chun YN, Kim SW (2008) Hydrogen production conditions from food waste by dark fermentation with Clostridium beijerinckii KCTC 1785. Biotechnol Bioprocess Eng 13:499–504. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12257-008-0142-0
Kim S, Seol E, Oh Y-K, Wang GY, Park S (2009) Hydrogen production and metabolic flux analysis of metabolically engineered Escherichia coli strains. Int J Hydrog Energy 34:7417–7427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.05.053
Kranert M, Cimatoribus C, Quicker P (2020) Waste, 5. Biowaste treatment. In: Ullmann’s encyclopedia of industrial chemistry. American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, pp 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1002/14356007.o28_o06.pub2
Kumar N, Das D (2000) Enhancement of hydrogen production by Enterobacter cloacae IIT-BT 08. Process Biochem 35:589–593. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0032-9592(99)00109-0
Lay J-J, Fan K-S, Chang J, Ku C-H (2003) Influence of chemical nature of organic wastes on their conversion to hydrogen by heat-shock digested sludge. Int J Hydrog Energy 28:1361–1367. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0360-3199(03)00027-2
Lee D-J, Show K-Y, Su A (2011) Dark fermentation on biohydrogen production: pure culture. Bioresour Technol 102:8393–8402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2011.03.041
Li Y, Jin Y, Li J, Chen Y, Gong Y, Li Y, Zhang J (2016) Current situation and development of kitchen waste treatment in China. Procedia Environ Sci 31:40–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proenv.2016.02.006
Ma C, Wang X, Guo L, Wu X, Yang H (2012) Enhanced photo-fermentative hydrogen production by Rhodobacter capsulatus with pigment content manipulation. Bioresour Technol 118:490–495. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2012.04.105
Mahro B, Timm M (2007) Potential of biowaste from the food industry as a biomass resource. Eng Life Sci 7:457–468. https://doi.org/10.1002/elsc.200620206
Malamis D, Moustakas K, Bourka A, Valta K, Papadaskalopoulou C, Panaretou V, Skiadi O, Sotiropoulos A (2015) Compositional analysis of biowaste from study sites in Greek municipalities. Waste Biomass Valoriz 6:637–646. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-015-9406-z
Mathews J, Wang G (2009) Metabolic pathway engineering for enhanced biohydrogen production. Int J Hydrog Energy 34:7404–7416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.05.078
Mayer F, Bhandari R, Gäth SA, Himanshu H, Stobernack N (2020) Economic and environmental life cycle assessment of organic waste treatment by means of incineration and biogasification. Is source segregation of biowaste justified in Germany? Sci Total Environ 721:137731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137731
McKinlay JB, Harwood CS (2010) Photobiological production of hydrogen gas as a biofuel. Curr Opin Biotechnol 21:244–251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2010.02.012
Meinecke B, Bertram J, Gottschalk G (1989) Purification and characterization of the pyruvate-ferredoxin oxidoreductase from Clostridium acetobutylicum. Arch Microbiol 152:244–250. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00409658
Mian MM, Zeng X, Nasry AANB, Al-Hamadani SMZF (2017) Municipal solid waste management in China: a comparative analysis. J Mater Cycles Waste Manag 19:1127–1135. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-016-0509-9
Minghua Z, Xiumin F, Rovetta A, Qichang H, Vicentini F, Bingkai L, Giusti A, Yi L (2009) Municipal solid waste management in pudong new area, China. Waste Manag 29(3):1227–1233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2008.07.016
Møller KT, Jensen TR, Akiba E, Li H (2017) Hydrogen—a sustainable energy carrier. Prog Nat Sci Mater Int 27:34–40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnsc.2016.12.014
Moretti P, Morais de Araujo J, Borges de Castilhos A, Buffière P, Gourdon R, Bayard R (2020) Characterization of municipal biowaste categories for their capacity to be converted into a feedstock aqueous slurry to produce methane by anaerobic digestion. Sci Total Environ 716:137084. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137084
Morra S, Mongili B, Maurelli S, Gilardi G, Valetti F (2016) Isolation and characterization of a new [FeFe]-hydrogenase from Clostridium perfringens. Biotechnol Appl Biochem 63:305–311. https://doi.org/10.1002/bab.1382
Nath K, Das D (2004) Improvement of fermentative hydrogen production: various approaches. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 65. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-004-1644-0
Nissilä ME, Lay C-H, Puhakka JA (2014) Dark fermentative hydrogen production from lignocellulosic hydrolyzates—a review. Biomass Bioenergy 67:145–159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2014.04.035
Nogales J, Gudmundsson S, Thiele I (2012) An in silico re-design of the metabolism in Thermotoga maritima for increased biohydrogen production. Int J Hydrog Energy 37:12205–12218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.06.032
Ntaikou I, Koutros E, Kornaros M (2009) Valorisation of wastepaper using the fibrolytic/hydrogen producing bacterium Ruminococcus albus. Bioresour Technol 100:5928–5933. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2009.06.019
Ntaikou I, Antonopoulou G, Lyberatos G (2010) Biohydrogen production from biomass and wastes via dark fermentation: a review. Waste Biomass Valoriz 1:21–39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-009-9001-2
Oh Y-K, Raj SM, Jung GY, Park S (2013) Metabolic engineering of microorganisms for biohydrogen production. In: Biohydrogen. Elsevier, San Diego, pp 45–65. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-59555-3.00003-9
Osman AI, Deka TJ, Baruah DC, Rooney DW (2020) Critical challenges in biohydrogen production processes from the organic feedstocks. Biomass Convers Bioref. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-020-00965-x
Özgür E, Mars AE, Peksel B, Louwerse A, Yücel M, Gündüz U, Claassen PAM, Eroğlu İ (2010) Biohydrogen production from beet molasses by sequential dark and photofermentation. Int J Hydrog Energy 35:511–517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.10.094
Pachapur VL, Kutty P, Pachapur P, Brar SK, Le Bihan Y, Galvez-Cloutier R, Buelna G (2019) Seed pretreatment for increased hydrogen production using mixed-culture systems with advantages over pure-culture systems. Energies 12:530. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12030530
Patel SKS, Kumar P, Singh M, Lee J-K, Kalia VC (2015) Integrative approach to produce hydrogen and polyhydroxybutyrate from biowaste using defined bacterial cultures. Bioresour Technol 176:136–141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2014.11.029
Patil R, Vinchurkar S, Jadhav P, Sarkar J, Sharmila M (2017) Hydrogen generation from biowaste & its application as a fuel. IJIREEICE 5:47–50. https://doi.org/10.17148/IJIREEICE.2017.5310
Perego P, Fabiano B, Ponzano GP, Palazzi E (1998) Experimental study of hydrogen kinetics from agroindustrial by-product: optimal conditions for production and fuel cell feeding. Bioprocess Eng 19:205. https://doi.org/10.1007/s004490050507
Rafieenia R, Lavagnolo MC, Pivato A (2018a) Pre-treatment technologies for dark fermentative hydrogen production: current advances and future directions. Waste Manag 71:734–748. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2017.05.024
Rafieenia R, Pivato A, Schievano A, Lavagnolo MC (2018b) Dark fermentation metabolic models to study strategies for hydrogen consumers inhibition. Bioresour Technol 267:445–457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2018.07.054
Raninger B (1996) Reconversion of traditional composting plants for a policy of quality. In: de Bertoldi M, Sequi P, Lemmes B, Papi T (eds) The science of composting. Springer, Dordrecht, pp 948–957. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1569-5_91
Razza F, D’Avino L, L’Abate G, Lazzeri L (2018) The role of compost in bio-waste management and circular economy. In: Benetto E, Gericke K, Guiton M (eds) Designing sustainable technologies, products and policies. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 133–143. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66981-6_16
Ruggeri B, Tommasi T, Sanfilippo S (2015) Hydrogen production from biowaste. In: BioH2 & BioCH4 through anaerobic digestion. Springer, London, pp 107–135. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6431-9_6
Scarlat N, Fahl F, Dallemand J-F (2019) Status and opportunities for energy recovery from municipal solid waste in Europe. Waste Biomass Valoriz 10:2425–2444. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-018-0297-7
Schüch A, Morscheck G, Lemke A, Nelles M (2016) Bio-waste recycling in Germany—further challenges. Procedia Environ Sci 35:308–318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proenv.2016.07.011
Sharma P, Melkania U (2017) Biosurfactant-enhanced hydrogen production from organic fraction of municipal solid waste using co-culture of E. coli and Enterobacter aerogenes. Bioresour Technol 243:566–572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2017.06.182
Show K-Y, Lee D-J, Zhang Z-P (2011) Production of biohydrogen. In: Pandey A, Larroche C, Ricke SC, Dussap C-G, Gnansounou E (eds) Biofuels. Academic Press, pp 467–479. ISBN: 9780123850997
Singh V, Das D (2019) Potential of hydrogen production from biomass. In: Science and engineering of hydrogen-based energy technologies. Elsevier, San Diego, pp 123–164. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-814251-6.00003-4
Stephen AJ, Archer SA, Orozco RL, Macaskie LE (2017) Advances and bottlenecks in microbial hydrogen production. Microb Biotechnol 10:1120–1127. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.12790
Tahri N, Bahafid W, Sayel H, El Ghachtouli N (2013) Biodegradation: involved microorganisms and genetically engineered microorganisms. In: Chamy R (ed) Biodegradation—life of science. InTech, Croatia. https://doi.org/10.5772/56194
Take H, Andou Y, Nakamura Y, Kobayashi F, Kurimoto Y, Kuwahara M (2006) Production of methane gas from Japanese cedar chips pretreated by various delignification methods. Biochem Eng J 28:30–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bej.2005.08.036
Wang S, Huang H, Moll J, Thauer RK (2010) NADP+ reduction with reduced ferredoxin and NADP+ reduction with NADH are coupled via an electron-bifurcating enzyme complex in Clostridium kluyveri. J Bacteriol 192:5115–5123. https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.00612-10
Wang P, Wang H, Qiu Y, Ren L, Jiang B (2018) Microbial characteristics in anaerobic digestion process of food waste for methane production—a review. Bioresour Technol 248:29–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2017.06.152
Woodward J, Orr M, Cordray K, Greenbaum E (2000) Enzymatic production of biohydrogen. Nature 405:1014–1015. https://doi.org/10.1038/35016633
Yang H, Guo L, Liu F (2010) Enhanced bio-hydrogen production from corncob by a two-step process: dark- and photo-fermentation. Bioresour Technol 101:2049–2052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2009.10.078
Zeller V, Lavigne C, D’Ans P, Towa E, Achten WMJ (2020) Assessing the environmental performance for more local and more circular biowaste management options at city-region level. Sci Total Environ 745:140690. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140690
Zhao X, Tan W, Peng J, Dang Q, Zhang H, Xi B (2020) Biowaste-source-dependent synthetic pathways of redox functional groups within humic acids favoring pentachlorophenol dechlorination in composting process. Environ Int 135:105380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.105380
Zorpas AA, Lasaridi K (2013) Measuring waste prevention. Waste Manag 33:1047–1056. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2012.12.017
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2021 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
El Asri, O., Fadlaoui, S., Ramdani, M., Errochdi, S. (2021). Microbial Degradation of Biowaste for Hydrogen Production. In: Inamuddin, .., Ahamed, M.I., Prasad, R. (eds) Recent Advances in Microbial Degradation. Environmental and Microbial Biotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0518-5_17
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0518-5_17
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-16-0517-8
Online ISBN: 978-981-16-0518-5
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental ScienceEarth and Environmental Science (R0)