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Hydrogen production using Purple Non-Sulfur Bacteria (PNSB) cultivated under natural or artificial light conditions with synthetic or fermentation derived substrates

  • Alessandra Adessi,

The aim of this thesis was to verify the feasibility of the hydrogen production process with purple non sulfur bacteria both under sunlight irradiation in an up-scaled system and with the use of low cost substrates. Among the products offermentations tested the best results were obtained with a medium derived from vegetable wastes. The use of a genetically modified strain of Rhodopseudomonas palustris insensitive to ammonium opened the way towards the use of wastes with attainment of high hydrogen yields also in inhibiting conditions. The experimentation carried out under natural irradiation demonstrated the full feasibility of the process using sunlight instead of artificial light in a semi-pilot reactor: the production rates were the highest so far reported for comparable outdoor systems.

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Alessandra Adessi

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-6144-644X

Alessandra Adessi graduated from her Master Degree in Industrial and En vironmental Biotechnology in 2007 and obtained her PhD in Microbial Agricultural Biotechnology in 2012 at the University of Florence, Italy. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow of the Italian National Research Council (CNR).
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Book Title

Hydrogen production using Purple Non-Sulfur Bacteria (PNSB) cultivated under natural or artificial light conditions with synthetic or fermentation derived substrates

Authors

Alessandra Adessi

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Number of Pages

134

Publication Year

2013

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© 2013 Author(s)

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CC BY-ND 3.0 IT

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/978-88-6655-455-4

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978-88-6655-454-7

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Premio Tesi di Dottorato

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2612-8039

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2612-8020

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