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Photosynthetic Purple Non Sulfur Bacteria in Hydrogen Producing Systems: New Approaches in the Use of Well Known and Innovative Substrates

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During the last few years, progress has been made in developing cleaner and more efficient bioenergy producing systems. Innovative processes and novel substrates were assessed at lab scale, in order to investigate and promote a sustainable development of photobiological hydrogen production. Recent and innovative processes and the use of novel substrates are discussed in this chapter. The main focus is on photofermentation systems conducted on biomass derived substrates, as these are considered to be the applicative goal of hydrogen production. Indeed, it is also present a short excursus on some synthetic media, investigated as interesting opportunities for enlarging applicability of the hydrogen technology. The number of new findings here reported demonstrates that it is worth continuing the efforts for increasing the knowledge on the photofermentation process for H2 production, in particular owing to the need of reducing the use of fossil fuels for mitigating the emissions of GHG in the atmosphere.

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Abbreviations

DW:

Dry weight

OMWW:

Olive mill waste waters

PHA:

Polyhydroxyalkanoate

PHB:

Poly-β-hydroxybutyrate

PNSB:

Purple non sulfur bacteria

VFAs:

Short chain volatile fatty acids

VS:

Volatile solids

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AA and RDP acknowledge CNR (Italian National Research Council) (EFOR project), and Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze (Project HYDROLAB2) for funding their researches cited in this review. RDP would also like to mention the contribution given to his activities by the participation in the IEA-HIA (International Energy Agency—Hydrogen Implementation Agreement), Annex 34. EC acknowledges Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa for supporting and funding her PhD research project.

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  3. Department of Agrifood Production and Environmental Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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Adessi, A., Corneli, E., De Philippis, R. (2017). Photosynthetic Purple Non Sulfur Bacteria in Hydrogen Producing Systems: New Approaches in the Use of Well Known and Innovative Substrates. In: Hallenbeck, P. (eds) Modern Topics in the Phototrophic Prokaryotes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46261-5_10

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