Quantification of Temperature Effect On Batch Production of Bio-Hydrogen From Rice Crop Wastes in An Anaerobic Bio Reactor

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Quantification of temperature effect on batch

production of bio-hydrogen from rice crop wastes
in an anaerobic bio reactor
Asma Sattar a,1, Chaudhry Arslan a,b,1, Changying Ji a,*, Saba Sattar c,
Muhammad Umair d, Sumiyya Sattar e, Muhammad Zia Bakht f
a
College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210031, China
b
Department of Structures and Environmental Engineering, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Faisalabad,
38000, Pakistan
c
National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan
d
Department of Agricultural Engineering, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
e
Veterinary Research Institute, Lahore, Cantt, 54810, Pakistan
f
Institute of Food Science and Technology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38000, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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Article history: Rice is an important cereal crop and different types of wastes are produced from it such as;
Received 11 February 2016 rice straw as a crop residue, rice husk and rice bran as agro-industrial waste and rice waste
Received in revised form as a food waste, which are needed to be tested for bio-hydrogen production under similar
6 April 2016 set of experimental conditions. The bio-hydrogen production potential of these wastes was
Accepted 13 April 2016 compared by co-digestion with heat shocked sludge under mesophilic thermophilic tem-
Available online xxx peratures by using an anaerobic bio reactor under no pH control conditions. It was
observed that the bio-hydrogen production potential increased with an increase in tem-
Keywords: perature from 37 C to 55 C for all wastes, except for rice waste. Although, the highest
Rice crop experimental yield of 40.04 mL/VSrem was produced from thermophilic rice straw, but the
Bio-hydrogen production maximum bio-hydrogen production rate of 97.08 mL/h was observed from rice bran after
Optimum pH 29.03 h under thermophilic conditions. The bio-hydrogen production period of rice bran
Kinetic parameters was 33e38% smaller than rice straw due to which the highest yield was observed from rice
Volatile fatty acids straw. The lignin content of rice husk was 19.34%, which was double than rice straw and
hence the rice husk produced the least experimental yield of 23.05 mL/VSrem under mes-
ophilic conditions. Increasing the temperature from mesophilic to thermophilic conditions
changed the final pH by 1.79%, 8.33%, 5.17% and 5.41% for rice straw, rice bran, rice husk
and rice waste, respectively. The optimum pH range of bio-hydrogen production from rice
straw, bran and husk was observed from pH 7 to pH 6. The average yield of wastes pro-
duced from rice crop was 30.36 and 33.16 mL/VSrem under mesophilic and thermophilic
conditions, respectively. The quadratic modeling found useful in order to explain more
than 90% variation caused by incubation time and temperature on cumulative bio-
hydrogen production, drop in pH and VFA production. The 3D and 2D plots developed on
* Corresponding author.
E-mail address: chyji@njau.edu.cn (C. Ji).
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These authors contributed equally to this work.
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compared to conventional representation of experimental results. As a whole, increasing
temperature not only increased bio-hydrogen yield, but also decrease the volatile fatty acid
production.
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common pretreatment is comminution in which the ultra-

Introduction structure of lignocellulosic biomass is changed. In this tech-
nique final particle size of 0.2e2 mm is achieved, which
Rice is one of the most popular staple food in the world and increases the surface area and reduces the cellulose crystal-
Asia has 90% share in worldwide rice production out of which linity for better biodegradability [28,34]. The mix consortia of
28.7% is produced by China alone. The rice was planted over Clostridium are the common group of microorganism that can
29.8 million hectare area of China, which produced 196.7 be used for this purpose as they are easily available in the form
million tons of paddy in the year 2009 [13,50]. The major res- of sludge [12]. The sludge also contains hydrogen consumers
idues obtained upon the cultivation of rice crop are straw, like methanogens, which can be deactivated by exposing
husk and bran. Rice straw is produced at the time of har- sludge to higher temperature, UV radiations, extremely high
vesting and termed as agricultural waste, whereas rice husk or low pH and hazardous chemicals [39]. Among all these
and rice bran are obtained as a byproduct of the milling pro- methods, heat shock is the most suitable as it is an easy and
cess and termed as agro-industrial wastes [53]. In China, rice economical method [11]. In heat shocked sludge, metha-
straw has a share of 62% in total crop residues and 1.35 tons of nogens are unable to survive, but Clostridium can survive by
rice straw are produced for every ton of rice grain harvested forming protective spores [52]. Apart Clostridium, sludge can
[21,55]. The straw is utilized in the paper making industry, provide some nutrients to fulfill the nutritional requirement
building construction, animal feed and home warming, but for bacterial growth, which can make the process more
still a lot of straw is left in the field. The leftover straw is economical and simple [24,40].
burned which causes serious environmental threats. On the The incubation temperature is an important parameter for
other hand, 0.2e0.33 tons of rice husk is produced per ton of optimum bio-hydrogen production from wastes co-digested
paddy during milling process, which is used as animal feed, with heat shocked sludge. In case of rice crop wastes, the ef-
insulating material and fertilizer [22,27]. Apart this, many fect of temperature was not intensively studied. Previously,
power plants in China are producing electricity through gasi- Alemahdi et al. [2] reported the bio-hydrogen yield of 14.7 mL/
fication of rice husk [30]. Even after the multidirectional use of VS under mesophilic condition, which was improved to
rice husk, still lot of rice husk is burnt causing serious envi- 21 mL/VS by Kim et al. [24] by opting thermophilic condition.
ronmental issues [22,23]. Along with husk, 0.1e0.12 tons of In case of rice husk, few studies are conducted by using rice
rice bran is also produced per ton of paddy, which is used to husk or its hydrolysate for bio-hydrogen production under
extract oil as well as in food products and animal feed. mesophilic conditions only [31,40]. Similarly, bio-hydrogen
Another type of waste is also produced from rice crop as part production was reported under mesophilic conditions from
of organic fraction of municipal solid waste and termed as rice rice bran [1,38]. Even if the bio-hydrogen is produced from said
waste. The rice waste has 10e15% share in food waste pro- wastes under both temperature conditions, but still it is not
duced at canteens [47]. comparable as the experimental conditions are different. The
Apart from the conventional utilization of wastes produced effect of temperature on rice waste was studied by Fang et al.
from rice crop, converting the said wastes into more valuable [12] and Arslan et al. [9] under similar set of experimental
products like methane, ethanol and bio-hydrogen are better conditions, but still further work is needed to verify the
options by which environmental concerns as well as energy experimental results over larger scale.
challenges can be addressed together. The conversion can be Although intensive research is done on methane and
done by gasification and pyrolysis, but it can cause a threat to ethanol production from agricultural waste still there is a
the environment. This issue can be resolved by opting bio- gap for research on bio-hydrogen production from the
logical means, such as; anaerobic fermentation, which is an wastes produced from rice crop [5,6]. So, the following study
environmental friendly and accommodate wide range of was designed to quantify and compare the bio-hydrogen
substrates [10,35,49]. In this regard, bio-hydrogen production production potential of lignocellulosic wastes like rice
through anaerobic fermentation is more advantageous over straw and rice husk along with carbohydrate rich wastes like
other fuel, as hydrogen producing microorganisms could uti- rice bran and rice waste produced from rice crop when they
lize a wide range of sugar hydrolysates as compared to other were co-digested with treated sludge under mesophilic
microbes [19]. The sugar hydrolysates were available in the thermophilic conditions. The volatile solids, volatile fatty
form of holo-cellulose in rice straw and husk, whereas in case acids, soluble chemical oxygen demand and pH were also
of ice bran and rice waste, carbohydrates are the sources of measured to observe various aspects of the fermentation
sugar hydrolysates. The holo-cellulose in bounded by lignin process.
and is not easily bio-degraded. To overcome this issue, the
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Co., China) was also attached to the reactor to develop

Material and methods anaerobic conditions [9,44].
Feed stock preparation Analytical and assay methods
The rice straw was collected from Ba Bai Qiao field and air The total solids (TS), volatile solids (VS), chemical oxygen de-
dried after removing foreign materials. Later, it was cut up to mand (COD), volatile fatty acids (VFA) and alkalinity were
the length of 8e10 cm and ground in a grinder (LH-08B Speed measured by standard methods [3]. The volume of hydrogen
Grinder, CNC Instruments Inc., China). Finally, the grounded gas was measured by 3% NaOH method as used in our previous
straw was passed through a 2 mm sieve and used for bio- studies [4,9,44]. The compositional properties of straw and husk
hydrogen production. Rice Husk was obtained from a local were measured by the procedure opted by Ververis [54]. The
industry, ground and sieved in the same way as opted for rice bio-hydrogen production was modeled by modified Gompertz
straw. Rice bran was also obtained from local supplier and Equation for the determination of kinetic parameters [41]
sieved in the similar way like husk and straw. The food waste

was collected from student dining, bones, potato, noodles, Rm e
H ¼ Pexp exp ðl tÞ þ 1 (1)
meat, green vegetables and tofu were removed to obtained P
rice waste. Later, the rice waste was ground in a food grinder where H, t, P, Rm, l and e represent cumulative bio-hydrogen
by adding an equal amount of water on weight basis and production (mL), incubation time (h), bio-hydrogen produc-
resultant slurry was used for bio-hydrogen production [43]. tion potential, maximum bio-hydrogen production rate (mL/
The sludge was obtained from a settling channel in Pukou. h), lag phase duration (h) and 2.71828 respectively. The values
It was sieved and washed with tap water to remove dust and of H, t, P, Rm were solved by using curve fitting tool in Matlab
foreign materials [36]. Later, it was placed in preheated oven at (Ver. 2010 a).
100 C for 30 min in order to deactivate hydrogen consumers In this study, the effects of temperature and incubation
[29,42]. The volatile solids, chemical oxygen demand, volatile time on cumulative bio-hydrogen production, drop in pH and
fatty acids, alkalinity and pH of the sludge were 2.87%, 50 g/L, on VFA production were analyzed by full quadratic model as
13,950 mg/L, 3700 mg/L and 7.1, respectively. shown below [20,26]
X
n X
n X
n X
n
Anaerobic bio-reactor (ABR) Y ¼ a0 þ ai Xi þ aii X2i þ aij Xi Xj (2)

i¼1 i¼1 i¼1 i < j¼2
In the present study, a 20 L stainless steel double jacket where Xi and Xj are the controlled parameters, which influ-
anaerobic bio reactor was designed in collaboration with ence Y, a0, aii, aij, are the offset term, linear and quadratic
Zhejiang Instruments Limited (Fig. 1). The reactor was coefficients respectively.
equipped with proportionaleintegralederivative (PID) con-
trollers (CAN-C700, Aivpen Instruments, China and PH900,
Acitek Instrument, China) for temperature and pH manage- Batch experiments
ment. Thorough mixing was done by a three stage stirrer
operated by DC motor (ZSD05A, Shanghai ShuDong Motor Co., The reactor was operated at 10% TS by adding waste and
Ltd, China). A vacuum pump (FY-1H-N, Zhejiang E &M Value seeded sludge in equal proportion on TS basis and finally
Fig. 1 e Schematic Diagram for double jacket anaerobic bio-reactor.
adding water to achieved desired experimental condition. The straw till 144 h of incubation because of which rice straw has
initial pH was maintained to 7.5 for straw and husk [32,37]. For the highest cumulative bio-hydrogen production (not shown
rice bran and rice waste, the initial pH was maintained to 7 in Fig. 2).
with the help of pH controller using 3 M HCl or 3 M NaOH Shifting the incubation temperature from mesophilic
[9,16]. The co-digestion was done under mesophilic (37 C) and (37 C) to thermophilic (55 C) increased the bio-hydrogen
thermophilic (55 C) conditions and all experiments were production potential for all wastes except rice waste. The
performed in duplicate [4]. The pH and volume of bio- time during which the bio-hydrogen was produced bio-
hydrogen was measured after 12 h interval and VFAs were hydrogen is termed as production time and for rice bran the
measured on daily basis. The reactor were closed when bio- production time was 96 h under both temperatures. The gas
hydrogen production was completely ceased, after which TS production was stopped in rice bran due to consumption of
and VS were analyzed [24]. carbohydrates. It is also observed that the co-digestion with
sludge have increased the bio-hydrogen production time to
96 h from 50 h as reported by Noike and Mizuno [38]. It might
Results and discussion be due to presence of Clostridium Saccharoper Butylacetonicum
N1-4 as reported by Al-shograni [1].
Cumulative bio-hydrogen production and kinetic parameters The maximum cumulative bio-hydrogen production was
observed in the thermophilic rice straw reactor as the bio-
The bio-hydrogen production ceased for all wastes within five hydrogen production continued till 156 h (not shown in
days of incubation except for rice straw. The cumulative Fig. 2). On the other end, the increase in temperature caused
production is shown in Fig. 2, where five-day data is given for negative effect on bio-hydrogen production from rice waste,
better representation. Rice bran represented a higher initial which was in agreement with the findings of Fang [12] and
bio-hydrogen production within 12 h of incubation under Arslan [4].
mesophilic condition, whereas rice husk showed a late start The change in kinetic parameters with temperature were
between 12 and 24 h of incubation. During 12e60 h, the bio- not the same in all waste types (Table 1). With the shift in
hydrogen production in rice bran and rice waste reactor was temperature from 37 C to 55 C, the Rm value for rice bran
almost same (Fig. 2), after which production in rice bran was became 97.08 mL/h after an increase of 68.40%, which is the
slightly decreased till 96 h under mesophilic condition. After highest value observed and also higher than that achieved by
96 h, bio-hydrogen production was ceased in the rice bran and Al Shorgani [1]. On the other hand, increase in a P value
rice waste reactor under mesophilic temperature and at that (45.33%) due to an increase in temperature for rice bran was
time, cumulative bio-hydrogen production was the highest in not the same. It is because of the bio-hydrogen production
rice bran reactor. Although, mesophilic bio-hydrogen pro- from rice bran was higher under mesophilic conditions as
duction in rice husk reactor ceased at 108 h, still the cumu- compared to thermophilic conditions after 60 h of incubation.
lative bio-hydrogen production was the least as compared to Secondly, the duration for bio-hydrogen production was
other wastes under same temperature. The bio-hydrogen almost the same under both temperatures and there was only
production as started after 12 h of incubation in mesophilic about one-hour difference between l values (Table 1). The rice
rice husk reactor whereas in other reactors it was started straw represented quite different trend, the increase in Rm
before 12 h of incubation. The late start and lower bio- value (5.22%) was much smaller as compared to increase in P
hydrogen production during every 12 h intervals were the value (26.87%) due to increase in temperature. It is because of
reasons for the least cumulative bio-hydrogen production smaller thermophilic l value, which cause an early start in
from rice husk under mesophilic conditions. On the other bio-hydrogen production and longer thermophilic production
hand, production remained continued in mesophilic rice period i.e., 154.73 and 134.74 h under thermophilic and
6,000
Cumulative Bio-hydrogen Production (mL)
5,000
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
0
0 12 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120
Time (h)
Fig. 2 e Cumulative bio-hydrogen production from tested wastes.
Table 1 e Effect of temperature on kinetic parameters.

Feed stock Temperature ( C) P (mL) Rm (mL/h) l (h) tmax (h) R2 Temperature effect (%)
P Rm l tmax
Rice straw 37 4258 42.51 10.26 47.22 0.9973 26.87 5.22 87.61 2.93
55 5402 44.73 1.271 45.84 0.9955
Rice husk 37 1855 24.29 22.89 51.07 0.9989 50.57 70.11 46.13 27.02
55 2793 41.32 12.33 37.27 0.9978
Rice bran 37 3473 57.65 10.87 33.10 0.9975 45.35 68.40 9.48 12.30
55 5048 97.08 9.84 29.03 0.9992
Rice waste 37 3085 54.73 16.76 37.56 0.9989 44.15 24.70 82.52 22.52
55 1723 41.21 30.59 46.02 0.9988
mesophilic conditions, respectively. The rice husk repre- terms represented positive effect on bio-hydrogen production
sented almost same trend observed for rice bran, whereas rice with an increase in time and temperature for all wastes except
waste represented totally opposite trend as the bio-hydrogen for rice waste (Table 2), which is in agreement with the
production decreased with an increase in temperature experimental values. Similarly, the effect of time and tem-
within experimental range. perature on bio-hydrogen production was the highest for rice
The time to attain the maximum Rm (tmax) can be calculated bran as observed experimentally. On the other end, the R2
by taking the derivative of Equation (2) with respect to time were represented that the quadratic model explained more
and later comparing the results with zero [7]. Following than 90% of variation in the bio-hydrogen production with
equation will be achieved; time and temperature for all wastes. On the basis of the
model, the 3D and 2D plots were developed as shown in Fig. 3.
P
tmax ¼ l þ (3) It can be observed that the rice husk (Fig. 3b) represented the
e$Rm
least effect of temperature and time as compared to other
The resultant tmax values are shown in Table 1. The in- wastes and the rice waste showed a negative effect of tem-
crease in temperature decreased the tmax for all wastes except perature (Fig. 3d). The effect of temperature on bio-hydrogen
for rice waste. The experimental results showed the production from rice straw and rice bran became more
maximum bio-hydrogen production during 24e48 h for all dominated after 120 h and 72 h of incubation (Fig. 3a and c).
waste except for mesophilic rice husk for which it was The rice straw represented more variation in bio-hydrogen
observed during 36e60 h. The above tmax is in agreement with production with time till 132 h of incubation, whereas the
the experimental results. On the other end, the tmax can be rice bran represented the similar trend till 84 h of incubation.
used as hydraulic retention time (HRT) in continuous pro- On the other hand, the variation of bio-hydrogen production
duction of bio-hydrogen. Among all wastes tested, the rice was not so high throughout the incubation in rice husk and
bran has the minimum value of tmax, which make it more rice waste. As a whole, the 3D and 2D plots represented a
suitable for continuous bio-hydrogen process. better picture regarding the effect of temperature and incu-
The coefficients obtained through quadratic modeling of bation time.
cumulative bio-hydrogen production are listed in Table 2. The
coded values were used for incubation time x1 ranged from 2 Bio-hydrogen yield
to þ2 to represent 24e120 h of incubation for all wastes except
rice straw for which the coded values ranged from 3 to þ3 to The bio-hydrogen yield was calculated by dividing the P with
represent 24e168 h of incubation. The x2 represented the volatile solids removed during incubation (VSrem). Although, it
temperature with coded value ranged from 1 to þ1 to can be calculated on the basis of initial volatile solids, but in
represent 37 C to 55 C temperature, respectively. The linear that case the effect of temperature would be the same as
Table 2 e Quadratic equation coefficient.

Parameter Feed stock x1 x2 x21 x22 x1x2 F R2
Cumulative bio-hydrogen Rice straw 3401.33 609.63 361.12 80.25 22.05 39.63 1210.45 0.9902
Rice bran 3473.03 770.00 565.00 218.75 1.97 112.50 381.96 0.9795
Rice husk 1326.82 453.13 331.25 23.33 7.76 73.13 157.11 0.9515
Rice waste 1726.93 515.00 460.00 98.33 6.40 110.00 264.80 0.9707
Drop in pH Rice straw 6.07 0.17 0.23 0.02 0.05 0.02 103.94 0.8965
Rice bran 5.95 0.18 0.20 0.01 0.15 0.02 381.96 0.9795
Rice husk 5.99 0.09 0.13 0.03 0.05 0.01 161.80 0.9529
Rice waste 4.15 0.33 0.10 0.08 0.01 0.03 191.01 0.9598
VFA production Rice straw 1384.95 378.43 405.60 11.81 1270.65 59.68 402.98 0.9711
Rice bran 2080.51 365.62 318.75 28.13 0.74 9.38 138.81 0.9455
Rice husk 1259.45 243.75 75.00 37.50 15.55 18.75 138.13 0.9453
Rice waste 1716.83 462.74 110.58 9.38 22.00 28.37 458.62 0.9829
Fig. 3 e 3D and 2D plots for Cumulative bio-hydrogen production (a) Rice straw, (b) Rice husk, (c) Rice bran, (d) Rice waste.
observed in case of cumulative bio-hydrogen production. So temperature and waste type is shown in Fig. 4. Increasing the
the process efficiency could be better represented if the bio- temperature from 37 C to 55 C found useful in order to in-
hydrogen yield is calculated on the basis of volatile solids crease the bio-hydrogen yield from all wastes except rice
removed during incubation. The variation in bio-hydrogen waste as 9.34%, 31.31% and 23.51% increase in yield was
yield and specific hydrogen production rate (SHPR) with observed from rice straw, husk and bran, respectively. The
45 Bio-Hydrogen Yield (mL/VS rem)

be due to the growth of Clostridium aceticum [48]. As a whole,
40 Specific Hydrogen Production Rate (mL/day/VS rem) rice straw had the highest bio-hydrogen yield of 40.04 mL/
35 VSrem under thermophilic condition, which was close to
30 thermophilic rice bran yield 38.6 mL/VSrem. On the other end,
25 rice husk and rice straw are lignocellulosic part of rice crop
20 and the grinding has no effect on the compositional properties
15 but it reduced the crystalline nature of the cellulose, increased
10 active surface area as well as increased the degree of poly-
5 merization [18]. As the lignin content in the rice husk is almost
0 double than rice straw due to which less cellulose was avail-
able in rice husk due to lignin binding and hence produced the
Rice Straw Rice Husk Rice Bran Rice Waste least yield as compare to other wastes [33]. The bio-hydrogen
Fig. 4 e Effect of temperature and waste type on bio- yield could be increased by selecting the most efficient pre-
hydrogen yield. treatment method as well as providing nutrient solution
[17,24,40]. The reduction in bio-hydrogen production and
decrease in intensity of drop in pH indicated the possibility of
60 P VS rem Bio-hydrogen yield SHPR activation of methanogenic bacteria, which were deactivated
initially by heat treatment of sludge [41,45].
40
The effect of increasing temperature from 37 C to 55 C
Percentage Change
on cumulative bio-hydrogen production, VSrem, bio-

20
hydrogen yield and SHPR is shown in Fig. 5. In case of rice
0 straw, the bio-hydrogen production increased more as
Rice Straw Rice Husk Rice Bran Rice Waste compared to VS removed and bio-hydrogen yield, which
-20 represents that the conversion of VS to bio-hydrogen under
mesophilic condition was more efficient than thermophilic.
-40
The decrease in SHPR also at higher temperature also in-
-60 dicates the same results for rice straw. Similarly, increase in
P and bio-hydrogen yield due to increase in temperature was
Fig. 5 e Effect of increasing temperature from 37 C to 55 C. higher than the VS removed during incubation. The rela-
tionship between VSrem and bio-hydrogen yield along with
increase in SHPR due to temperature indicate that the VS
conversion efficiency for rice husk and rice bran increased
increase in yield might be due to the presence of Thermoa- with an increase in temperature within experimental range.
naerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum that grow at higher In case of rice waste, the increase in temperature decreased
temperature and produce more hydrogen [46]. the value of P more than the VSrem and bio-hydrogen yield
Under mesophilic conditions, the bio-hydrogen yield of decreased slightly less than VSrem, which ultimately caused
rice bran and rice waste was close to each other, as carbohy- little increase in SHPR (Fig. 5). Apparently, it seems that the
drates were the main source for bio-hydrogen, but rice waste rice straw is converted most efficiently into bio-hydrogen
has higher carbohydrates which causes negative effect of but detailed analysis in the light of VSrem represents that it
temperature on yield as reported by Fang [12]. The decrease in is the least efficient in term of VS conversion to bio-
the hydrogen production at thermophilic temperature might hydrogen at elevated temperature (55 C).
7.5
6.5
6
pH
5.5
4.5
3.5
0 12 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120
Time (h)
Fig. 6 e Drop in pH with incubation time.
Fig. 7 e 3D and 2D plots representing drop in pH (a) Rice straw, (b) Rice husk, (c) Rice bran, (d) Rice waste.
Change in pH After 12 h of incubation, the intensity of drop in pH reduced

in all reactors except for rice waste, as observed in our
The observed mesophilic pH drop was higher than ther- previous studies [8,9]. The final pH for mesophilic bio-
mophilic drop in case of rice straw, rice husk and rice waste hydrogen production were observed as 5.6, 5.8, 6.1 and 3.8
whereas, rice bran gives an opposite trend as shown in Fig. 6 for rice straw, rice husk, rice bran and rice waste, respec-
[44]. It can be seen that there was a sudden drop in pH tively. Increasing the temperature to thermophilic condi-
during 12 h of incubation in all wastes except rice bran. tions changed the final pH for rice straw, rice husk, rice bran
4000
3500
3000
VFA (mg/L) 2500
2000
1500
1000
500
24 48 72 96 120
Time (h)
Fig. 8 e Change in VFA content during incubation.
and rice waste as 5.7, 6.2, 5.7, and 4, respectively. Experi-

mentally, increase in bio-hydrogen production from rice VFA production
straw was observed from pH 6.7 to pH 6.1 and pH 7.1 to pH
6.6 under mesophilic as well as thermophilic temperatures, The VFA contents increased with time, because the wastes
respectively. After which, the bio-hydrogen production were co-digested with heat shocked sludge and it is in
started to decrease till the terminal pH was achieved. As a agreement with the finding of Kim [25]. The effect of tem-
whole, pH 7 to pH 6 was observed as an optimum pH range perature and time on VFA is represented in Fig. 8. The
for bio-hydrogen production from rice straw under both highest experimental VFA at the end of incubation was
tested temperatures as shown in Figs. 2 and 5. The same pH observed in mesophilic rice straw reactor and the increase in
range could be opted for optimum bio-hydrogen production temperature decreased the VFA content in all wastes as
from rice husk and rice bran but in case of rice waste, the previously [9,14]. As whole, at the end of incubation, the
optimum pH drop was observed from pH 5.5 to pH 4 [12]. decreased in VFA content due to temperature increase was
Another important aspect is that the increase in tempera- 18.23%, 22.22%, 15.79% and 22.62% for rice straw, rice bran,
ture from 37 C to 55 C shorten the pH range in which bio- rice husk and rice waste, respectively. During 72 h of incu-
hydrogen could be produced for all tested wastes except rice bation, the VFA and bio-hydrogen production was higher in
bran. all reactors after which VFA and bio-hydrogen production
The results of quadratic modeling on pH are also listed in rate both started to decrease. As a whole, during the same
Table 2, using the same coded values, which were previously duration the bio-hydrogen production was higher under
used for cumulative bio-hydrogen production. It can be thermophilic conditions in all wastes except rice waste. The
observed the effect of time (x1) is negative on all waste and possible reason of increase in bio-hydrogen production is the
the temperature effect is negative only for rice bran as change in physical state of the bacterial cell at high VFA
observed experimentally. The R2 values represented a good contents and need higher energy to pump ions through cell,
fit that could explain about 90% of variation. The plots which could be inhibitory to hydrogen production bacteria
developed by using quadratic modeling are shown in Fig. 7. [9]. Such high energy was readily available under thermo-
As the incubation time increased, the intensity of drop in pH philic conditions and ultimately bio-hydrogen production
decreased in all wastes. The effect of temperature became was increased [15,51,56].
more dominated at higher incubation and the intensity was The quadratic coefficient in Table 2 for VFA production
much higher in rice bran (Fig. 7c). In case of rice straw, the represented the same trend as observed experimentally. The
drop in pH was higher initially but after 72 h of incubation plot developed on the basis of the modeling are shown in
the intensity of the drop was reduced. The similar pattern Fig. 9. The rice straw represented the curve type pattern with
was observed for rice waste till 84 h of incubation. The drop temperature (Fig. 9a), which is explained by the square term of
in pH was the least in rice bran at elevated temperature after temperature (x22 ) having the most high value (Table 2). On the
60 h of incubation, whereas mesophilic conditions repre- other end, rice husk has the least effect of time and temper-
sented an opposite situation. As a whole the rice husk rep- ature (x1&x2), which was also observed experimentally. Simi-
resented a uniform drop in pH throughout, but the intensity larly, rice straw has the highest effect of the said parameters
of drop in pH under mesophilic conditions was high as as compared to other wastes, by which the VFA production in
compared to thermophilic conditions. Apart this, the drop in rice straw reactor was higher under mesophilic conditions
pH trend in rice bran was quite opposite to other wastes as and the effect of increasing temperature on VFA production
observed experimentally. was also high for rice straw. With time, the VFA production
Fig. 9 e 3D and 2D plots for VFA production (a) Rice straw, (b) Rice husk, (c) Rice bran, (d) Rice waste.
was also higher under mesophilic conditions as compared to almost uniform with time for rice husk and rice waste, but the
thermophilic conditions in rice straw, whereas the variation effect of temperature on rice husk was more dominated as
in VFA production became more dominating after 48 h of in- compared to rice waste. Keeping in view the VFA plots, it is
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common pretreatment is comminution in which the ultra-

Co., China) was also attached to the reactor to develop

Feed stock preparation Analytical and assay methods

Anaerobic bio-reactor (ABR) Y ¼ a0 þ ai Xi þ aii X2i þ aij Xi Xj (2)

Fig. 1 e Schematic Diagram for double jacket anaerobic bio-reactor.

Fig. 2 e Cumulative bio-hydrogen production from tested wastes.

Table 1 e Effect of temperature on kinetic parameters.

Table 2 e Quadratic equation coefficient.

45 Bio-Hydrogen Yield (mL/VS rem)

on cumulative bio-hydrogen production, VSrem, bio-

Fig. 6 e Drop in pH with incubation time.

Change in pH After 12 h of incubation, the intensity of drop in pH reduced

VFA (mg/L) 2500

Fig. 8 e Change in VFA content during incubation.

and rice waste as 5.7, 6.2, 5.7, and 4, respectively. Experi-

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