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Table 18.2

Pure and mixed cultures for biological hydrogen production.

Microbial strain

Substrate

Maximum H2

yield

References

Pure culture

Clostridium bifermentans WYM

Glucose

3.29 mol/mol

glucose

[15]

Clostridium pasteurianum MTCC 116

Crude glycerol

0.627 mol/mol

glycerol

[16]

Clostridium pasteurianum CH4

Sucrose

2.07 mol/mol

hexose

[17]

Clostridium butyricum CGS5

Xylose

0.73 mol/mol

xylose

[17]

Escherichia coli

Glucose

2.0 mol/mol

glucose

[18]

Clostridium thermocellum 27405

Cellulosic biomass

2.3 mol/mol

glucose

[19]

Clostridium acetobutylicum

Glucose

2.0 mol/mol

glucose

[20]

Enterobacter aerogenes

Starch

1.09 mol/mol

glucose

[21]

Clostridium paraputrificum M-21

Chitinous wastes

2.2 mol/mol

substrate

[22]

Enterobacter cloacae IIT-BT 08

Sucrose

6 mol/mol

sucrose

[23]

Mixed culture

Activated sludge

Alkaline

pretreated-sludge

15.6 ml/g

volatile

suspended

solids

[24]

Thickened sludge

Sludge/ryegrass

60 ml/g volatile

solids

[25]

H2-producing sludge

Food waste

hydrolysate

85.6 ml/g food

waste

[26]

Mixed microflora

Sucrose

3.31 mol/mol

sucrose

[27]

Bacillus cereus A1 and Brevundimonas

naejangsanensis B1

Corn starch

1.94 mol/mol

substrate

[28]

Digested sludge

Glucose

3.1 mol/mol

glucose

[29]

Cattle manure sludge

Glucose

1.0 mol/mol

glucose

[30]

Digested wastewater sludge

Sucrose

6.12 mol/mol

sucrose

[31]