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  • Review
    Citation - WoS: 16
    Citation - Scopus: 17
    Green Biohydrogen Production From Renewable Plant-Based Resources: a Comparative Evaluation
    (Institution of Chemical Engineers, 2024) Goren,A.Y.; Gören, Ayşegül Yağmur; Dincer,I.; Khalvati,A.
    Increasing energy demand drives the need for environmentally sustainable and economically viable renewable resources to eliminate problems related to greenhouse gas emissions. In recent years, research on biohydrogen (bio-H2) production as a renewable energy source has been recognized as a potential subject. It aims to reduce the pressures set by carbon dioxide emissions and the depletion of fossil fuel supplies. The field of bio-H2 science is considered potentially important; there have been increasing efforts to develop feasible systems for viable applications. This review further presents an updated and comprehensive review of bio-H2 production by dark fermentation (DF), photofermentation (PF), microbial electrolysis cells (MEC), and hybrid processes using plant-based materials. Among these processes, the highest H2 production yield of 680.8 mLH2/g-biomass was obtained using the DF-PF hybrid process. A comparison of bio-H2 production yields, the environmental impact, and the costs of DF, PF, MEC, and hybrid systems is considered, and superior performance was obtained for integrated biological processes. The comparative evaluation results showed that the MEC process is the most economical technology, followed by integrated systems. The PF is the most environmentally friendly H2 production process, presenting the lowest global warming potential (GWP) value of 1.88 kgCO2eq./kgH2 and acidification potential (AP) of 3,61 gSO2/kgH2 ; it is followed by DF and MEC processes. On the other hand, the highest GWP of 14.8 kgCO2eq./kgH2 and AP 103 gSO2/kg H2 were obtained for the DF-MEC process related to electrical and heat requirements during the production process. Furthermore, the WCP and WSF values were 84.5 and 3632.9 m3 for the DF-MEC integrated process due to the water utilization in anode and cathode solutions, while WCP was 2.91 m3 for the DF process. Overall, the results of this study further revealed that substantial effort, in the current and future, should be performed on bio-H2 production from plant-based biomass using integrated biological processes. Moreover, the bibliometric analysis presented that bio-H2 production from plant-based materials, MEC systems utilization, and nano-additives are growing areas in the bio-H2 research that provide zero-carbon energy in the future. © 2024 The Institution of Chemical Engineers
  • Article
    Citation - WoS: 14
    Citation - Scopus: 17
    Cleaner Production of Biohydrogen Using Poplar Leaves: Experimental and Optimization Studies
    (Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2024) Goren, A. Yagmur; Kenez, Muratcan; Dincer, Ibrahim; Khalvati, Ali
    Biohydrogen (bioH2) is recognized as a potential carbon-neutral energy vector, and developing novel methods has received increasing attention with a prime goal of producing H2 more efficient and cost effective manner. This study aimed to develop a unique reactor to investigate dark fermentative H2 production from poplar biomass using commercially available and inexpensive microorganism cultures. Therefore, six factors of the Box-Behnken design (BBD) were performed to evaluate the individual and combined effects of operational param-eters: acid concentration (2-10%), biomass concentration (2-10 g), initial pH (5-8), temperature (30-40 degrees C), mixing ratio (150-350 rpm), and microorganism concentration (2-6 g) on bioH2 production. Among the oper-ational parameters, the acid concentration was the most effective parameter on bioH2 production. The bioH2 production increased from 11.33 to 18.15 mg/g biomass with increasing acid concentration from 6 to 10%. Moreover, the optimum levels of operational variables were as follows: acid concentration of 9.9%, biomass amount of 2 g, pH of 6.56, temperature of 35 degrees C, mixing ratio of 345 rpm, and microorganism amount of 4.5 g for the highest bioH2 production of 20 mg/g-biomass according to the experimental design. Consequently, the bioH2 production performance of the dark fermentation process showed that bioH2 production from poplar biomass using commercially available microorganisms had a competitive advantage.
  • Review
    Citation - WoS: 22
    Citation - Scopus: 30
    Comparative Environmental Sustainability Assessment of Biohydrogen Production Methods
    (Elsevier, 2023) Goren, A. Yagmur; Dincer, Ibrahim; Khalvati, Ali; Gören, Ayşegül Yağmur; Dinçer, İbrahim
    As energy crisis is recognized as an increasingly serious concern, the topic on biohydrogen (bioH(2)) production, which is renewable and eco-friendly, appears to be a highly-demanding subject. Although bioH(2) production technologies are still at the developmental stage, there are many reported works available on lab- and pilot-scale systems with a promising future. This paper presents various potential methods of bioH(2) production using biomass resources and comparatively assesses them for environmental impacts with a special emphasis on the specific biological processes. The environmental impact factors are then normalized with the feature scaling and normalization methods to evaluate the environmental sustainability dimensions of each bioH(2) production method. The results reveals that the photofermentation (PF) process is more environmentally sustainable than the other investigated biological and thermochemical processes, in terms of emissions, water-fossil-mineral uses, and health issues. The global warming potential (GWP) and acidification potential (AP) for the PF process are then found to be 1.88 kg-CO2 eq. and 3.61 g-SO2 eq., which become the lowest among all processes, including renewable energy-based H-2 production processes. However, the dark fermentation-microbial electrolysis cell (DF-MEC) hybrid process is considered the most environmentally harmful technique, with the highest GWP value of 14.6 kg-CO2 eq. due to their superior electricity and heat requirements. The water conception potential (WCP) of 84.5 m(3) and water scarcity footprint (WSF) of 3632.9 m(3) for the DF-MEC process is also the highest compared to all other processes due to the huge amount of wastewater formation potential of the system. Finally, the overall rankings confirm that biological processes are primarily promising candidates to produce bioH(2) from an environmentally friendly point of view.