Table 8.5 Hydrogen potential of food processing waste
Substrate
Type of
operation
Temperature
(
C)
H 2 yield
H 2
production
rate
References
Food processing
and domestic
wastewater
Batch
Room
100 mL/g
COD
[126]
Sugar factory
wastewater
CSTR
Thermophilic 2.6 mol/mol
hexose
4.4 L/L/h
[29]
Press mud from
sugar industry
UASB
Not reported 4.99 L/kg press
mud fed
320 mL/g
COD fed
187 mL/g
VS
removed/d
[127]
Starch wastewater
Batch
Thermophilic 92 mL/g starch
[28]
Cassava starch
wastewater
UASB
Mesophilic
0.2–0.3 mol
H 2 /mol Carb
[15]
Potato processing
wastewater
Batch
Mesophilic
2.8 L/L wastewater
6.0 mmol/g
COD
0.1 L/g COD
[104]
[126]
Apple processing
wastewater
Batch
Mesophilic
0.1 L/g COD
[126]
Apple pomace
waste
Batch
Not reported 2.3 mol/mol
glucose
[128]
Apple pomace
Batch
Mesophilic
101 mL/g TS
8.08 mL/g
TS/h
[129]
Alcohol wastewater
and fermentation
residue
ASBR
Thermophilic 128 mL/g
COD removed
2.88 L/L/d [130]
Noodle
manufacturing
wastewater
Continuous Mesophilic
200 mL/g
hexose
[16]
Starch and rice
noodle wastewater
0.08 L/L
substrate
[106]
Rice winery
wastewater
UASB
Thermophilic 291 mL/g
COD
1.37–2.14 mol/
mol hexose
0.16 L/L/h
9.3 L/g
VSS/d
[8]
Winery wastewater
0.003 L/L
substrate
[106]
Rice slurry
Batch
Mesophilic
346 mL/g
carbohydrate
[26]
Filtered leachate of
waste biosolids
Batch
Mesophilic
184 mL/g
COD
[131]
Sugar beet
wastewater
Continuous Mesophilic
231 mL/g
hexose
[132]
CSTR
Mesophilic
0.34 L/L/h [133]
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