A review of the innovative gas separation membrane bioreactor with mechanisms for integrated production and purification of biohydrogen

Péter Bakonyi; Gopalakrishnan Kumar; Katalin Bélafi-Bakó; Sang-Hyoun Kim; Stanislaw Koter; Wojciech Kujawski; Nándor Nemestóthy; Jakub Peter; Zbynek Pientka

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2018.09.020

A review of the innovative gas separation membrane bioreactor with mechanisms for integrated production and purification of biohydrogen

Bioresour Technol. 2018 Dec:270:643-655. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.09.020. Epub 2018 Sep 5.

Authors

Péter Bakonyi¹, Gopalakrishnan Kumar², Katalin Bélafi-Bakó¹, Sang-Hyoun Kim³, Stanislaw Koter⁴, Wojciech Kujawski⁴, Nándor Nemestóthy¹, Jakub Peter⁵, Zbynek Pientka⁵

Affiliations

¹ Research Institute of Bioengineering, Membrane Technology and Energetics, University of Pannonia, Egyetem u. 10, 8200 Veszprém, Hungary.
² Institute of Chemistry, Bioscience and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Stavanger, Box 8600 Forus, 4036 Stavanger, Norway; School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea.
³ School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: sanghkim@yonsei.ac.kr.
⁴ Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Physical Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Gagarin Street 7, 87-100, Toruń, Poland.
⁵ Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, AS CR, Heyrovsky Sq. 2, 162 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic.

PMID: 30213541
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.09.020

Abstract

This review article focuses on an assessment of the innovative Gas Separation Membrane Bioreactor (GS-MBR), which is an emerging technology because of its potential for in-situ biohydrogen production and separation. The GS-MBR, as a special membrane bioreactor, enriches CO₂ directly from the headspace of the anaerobic H₂ fermentation process. CO₂ can be fed as a substrate to auxiliary photo-bioreactors to grow microalgae as a promising raw material for biocatalyzed, dark fermentative H₂-evolution. Overall, these features make the GS-MBR worthy of study. To the best of the authors' knowledge, the GS-MBR has not been studied in detail to date; hence, a comprehensive review of this topic will be useful to the scientific community.

Keywords: Algae cultivation; Biohydrogen; Gas separation; Integrated system; Membrane bioreactor.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Bioreactors*
Fermentation
Gases
Hydrogen / metabolism*
Membranes, Artificial

Substances

Gases
Membranes, Artificial
Hydrogen