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Table 3 Hydrogen production from crude glycerol

From: Conversion of residues and by-products from the biodiesel industry into value-added products

Product

Microorganism

Initial glycerol

Yield

References

Photofermentation

Rhodopseudomonas palustris

20 mM

6.1 mol/mol

(Ghosh et al. 2012b)

Dark fermentation

Klebsiella pneumoniae

10 % (v/v)

31.16 mol/g

(Rossi et al. 2011)

Photofermentation

Rhodopseudomonas palustris

10 mM

4.0 g/g

(Sabourin-Provost and Hallenbeck 2009)

Dark fermentation

Clostridium pasteurianum

10 g/L

0.775 mol/mol

(Lo et al. 2013)

Dark fermentation

Klebsiella sp. TR17

10 g/L

44.27 mmol/g

(Chookaew et al. 2014a)

Photofermentation

Rhodopseudomonas palustris

30 mM

7 mol/mol

(Ghosh et al. 2012a)

Dark fermentation

Enterobacter aerogenes NRRL B-407

10 g/L

2.51 mmol/L

(Sarma et al. 2013b)

Dark fermentation

Microbial mixed culture

90 %

0.66 mol/mol

(Varrone et al. 2013b)

Dark fermentation

Enterobacter aerogenes

20 g/L

25 mmol/L

(Sarma et al. 2014)

Photofermentation

Rhodopseudomonas palustris

10 mM

34 ml/g/h

(Pott et al. 2013)

Dark fermentation

Enterobacter aerogenes NRRL B 407

10 g/L

116.41 mmol/L

(Sarma et al. 2013a)

Dark fermentation

Klebsiella sp. TR17

11.14 g/L

0.27 mol/mol

(Chookaew et al. 2014b)

Photofermentation

Rhodopseudomonas palustris

50 mM

23–27 ml/g/h

(Pott et al. 2014)

Dark fermentation

Microbial mixed culture

20 g/L

9 L/L

(Varrone et al. 2013a)

Dark fermentation

Microbial mixed culture

50 %

0.55 mol/mol

(Chookaew et al. 2014a)