Hydrogen Recovery from Organic Wastes: Reactor Development and Improvement
The paper reviewed hydrogen production biotechnology on reactor development and design aspects. Biological hydrogen-producing reactor as acid-producing phase of two-phase anaerobic organism treatment system plays an important role in the following aspects: Reactor was developed as the follow ideas: a. CSTR-type anaerobic fermentation reactor is selected to reduce the substrate concentration in reactor and increase target product operational yield and selectivity in the reactor; b. mixture liquid in reaction area is stirred by the stirrer to reach a turbulent state in order to reduce interfacial layer thickness and temperature gradient in a floc unit particle and increase mass transfer rate; c. H2 in the particle and Liquid phase is accelerated to release to prevent accumulated H2 from bringing feedback inhibition to organism metabolism, and H2/CO2conversion to acetic acid; d. A sector turbine agitator with hoisting capacity and mixing power is selected to facilitate sludge to flow back through a effluence seam.