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Biohydrogen production: prospects and limitations to practical application

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In this paper, the authors compare the hydrogen production rates of various bio-hydrogen systems by first standardizing the units of hydrogen production and then calculating the size of biohydrogen system that would be required to power proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells of various sizes.
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This article is published in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.The article was published on 2004-02-01. It has received 1488 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hydrogen production & Biohydrogen.

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Roles of microorganisms other than Clostridium and Enterobacter in anaerobic fermentative biohydrogen production systems – A review

TL;DR: Recent discoveries on bacterial community composition obtained from dark fermentation biohydrogen production systems are described, with emphasis on the possible roles of microorganisms that co-exist with common hydrogen producers.
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An overview of hydrogen gas production from solar energy

TL;DR: In this paper, the available technologies for hydrogen generation using solar energy as main source are analyzed from a technological environmental and economical point of view, and it is concluded that developments of improved processes for hydrogen production via solar resource are likely to continue in order to reach competitive hydrogen production costs.
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Harnessing of biohydrogen from wastewater treatment using mixed fermentative consortia: Process evaluation towards optimization

TL;DR: In this paper, a dark fermentation process of biohydrogen (H2) production utilizing wastewater as primary substrate under acidogenic mixed microenvironment towards optimization of dynamic process was evaluated based on the nature and composition of wastewater.
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Metabolically engineered bacteria for producing hydrogen via fermentation.

TL;DR: This review provides an overview of microbial production of hydrogen by fermentation (currently the more favourable route) and focuses on biochemical pathways, theoretical hydrogen yields and hydrogenase structure.
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Recent developments in biological hydrogen production processes

TL;DR: In this paper, the state-of-the-art in molecular strategies to improve the hydrogen production has been presented, which includes the development of genetically modified microorganisms, the improvement of the bioreactor design, molecular engineering of the key enzyme hydrogenases, and two stage processes.
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Fuel cell systems explained

TL;DR: In this paper, the first edition of this paper, the authors presented an analysis of fuel cell systems and their performance in terms of Molar Gibbs Free Energy Calculations (GFE) and Open Circuit Voltage.
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Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of the second law of thermodynamics and its application in the context of a gas turbine power plant and evaluate the entropy of the system.
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Biology of microorganisms

TL;DR: Biology of microorganisms, Biology of micro organisms, مرکز فناوری اطلاعات و اصاع رسانی, کδاوρزی
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Hydrogen production by biological processes: a survey of literature

TL;DR: The paper presents a survey of biological hydrogen production processes, and the microorganisms and biochemical pathways involved in hydrogen generation processes are presented in some detail.
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