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Using cheese whey for hydrogen and methane generation in a two-stage continuous process with alternative pH controlling approaches

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The chemical oxygen demand (COD) elimination reached 95.3% demonstrating that cheese whey could be efficiently used for hydrogen and methane production, in a two-stage process.
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This article is published in Bioresource Technology.The article was published on 2009-08-01. It has received 225 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fermentative hydrogen production & Biogas.

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A review on dark fermentative biohydrogen production from organic biomass: Process parameters and use of by-products

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the potential of dark fermentation of organic biomasses and its potential in green energy-efficient green chemistry applications is presented, with a brief review on the simulation and modeling of the dark fermentation processes and their energy balance.
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Hydrogen production from agricultural waste by dark fermentation: A review

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on dark fermentation as a key technology for producing hydrogen from crop residues, livestock waste and food waste, considering that such wastes are complex substrates and can be degraded biologically by complex microbial ecosystems.
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Cheese whey management: a review.

TL;DR: The paper describes the main reactors used, the influence of the main operating variables, the microorganisms or reagents employed and the characterizations of the final effluent principally in terms of chemical oxygen demand and the comparison between the different treatment alternatives is postulated.
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A review on production, storage of hydrogen and its utilization as an energy resource

TL;DR: In this article, a review article elucidates production methods and storage of hydrogen, and safety related to H2 handling in refilling station, and automobiles has also been discussed, which shows that safety program and awareness could be fruitful for increasing the acceptance of hydrogen as fuel.
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Cheese whey wastewater: characterization and treatment

TL;DR: This research tries to conduct an exhaustive compilation of C WW characterization and a comparative study between the different features of CWW, cheese whey (CW), second cheese Whey (SCW) and dairy industry effluents.
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Standard methods for the examination of water and waste water.

TL;DR: Alkalinity measurements are used in the interpretation and control of water and wastewater treatment processes and can be interpreted in terms of specific substances only when the chemical composition of the sample is known.
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Methods of seawater analysis

TL;DR: The Automatic Determination of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) by Wet Chemical Oxidation is described in this paper, along with the results of HPLC analysis of photosynthetic pigments.
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Bio-hydrogen production from waste materials

TL;DR: In this paper, a review article summarizes bio-hydrogen production from some waste materials, including cellulose and starch containing agricultural and food industry wastes and some food industry wastewaters.
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Effect of pH on hydrogen production from glucose by a mixed culture

TL;DR: The effect of pH on the conversion of glucose to hydrogen by a mixed culture of fermentative bacteria was evaluated and the diversity of microbial communities increased with pH, based on 16S rDNA analysis by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE).
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Sustainable fermentative hydrogen production: challenges for process optimisation

TL;DR: This article reviewed information from continuous laboratory studies of fermentative hydrogen production useful when considering practical applications of the technology, including the need to manage spore germination and oxygen toxicity on start-up and control sporulation in adverse circumstances during reactor operation.
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