厌氧发酵法生物制氢的研究现状和发展前景

氢气是一种理想的能源,具有转化率高、可再生和无污染等优点。与传统制氢方法相比,生物制氢技术的能耗低,对环境无害,其中的厌氧发酵生物制氢已经越来越受到人们的重视。本文主要介绍了厌氧发酵生物制氢技术的方法和机理,分析了生物制氢的可行性,结合国内外研究现状提出了未来的发展方向。     

微生物制氢工艺优化与生物反应的调控

氢作为一种清洁高效的可再生能源日益受到人们的重视。本文从微生物制氢的条件与代谢调控方面探讨了生物制氢的最新进展。目前常用产氢细菌进行了总结,分析了细菌的培养方式和工艺方法,探讨了影响生物制氢的各种因素(pH,温度,基质,离子浓度,反应器等)。在此基础之上,阐述了分子生物学技术在生物制氢中的应用及系统代谢调控。最后,对生物制氢今后的主要研究方向及前景进行了展望。     

生物制氢及其与以海水为介质的高盐有机废水处理的耦合研究

当前,全球能源系统的主体是＂碳基能源＂——石油和煤等。这些不可再生的资源已日渐枯竭,而且大量使用会破坏地球生态系统。因此,用＂氢基能源＂逐步取代＂碳基能源＂已成为发达国家能源战略的首选目标,有的国家甚至将这一目标定在本世纪中叶。对于中国等发展中国家,大力开发生物质能等新的可再生＂碳基能源＂,同时加速发展＂氢基能源＂,争取提前进入氢能时代,才能实现可持续发展,甚至跨越式发展。制氢技术包括非生物制氢和生物制氢。非生物制氢目前已小量生产和应用,生物制氢的研究也有相当长的时间,其中影响生物制氢进入实用的主要因素是能耗和生产成本过高。因此,如果作为一个孤立的技术系统,生物制氢只能作为战略性项目。首先介绍了生物制氢的主要原理、目前限制生物制氢产业化的关键限制因子;提出了从系统论的原理出发,通过技术集成,突破生物制氢成本的＂瓶颈＂,达到环保和资源利用的双重目的,使其提前实用化;最后,重点阐述了以海水为介质的高盐有机废水的生物制氢技术的研究进展,尤其介绍我国在相关方面的研究进展。     

绿藻高效制氢影响因素的研究

绿藻作为生物能源的研究和开发具有诱人的发展前景。本文概述了绿藻制氢和产氢途径的研究进展,重点介绍了绿藻高效制氢的影响因素--绿藻[Fe]-氢化酶的研究和绿藻制氢的重要控制参数,同时,对绿藻制氢作为生物能源的开发应用前景进行了展望。     

生物制氢的现状与发展趋势

氢能是一种理想的能源。生物制氢技术在氢能的研究和开发中占着非常重要的位置。该文介绍了生物制氢的方法和机理,综述了国内外生物制氢的现状和发展趋势并提出了作者的看法。     

国际生物制氢相关研究的知识图谱分析

氢气是一种理想的洁净能源。生物制氢技术具有能耗低、环保等优势,是目前国内外研究的热点。从能源和环境角度考虑,发展生物制氢技术都具有重要的意义。通过ISI Web of Knowledge网络数据库检索2000~2008年8月期间生物制氢的相关研究,利用作者共引分析方法,并绘制了知识图谱。该图谱显示出此研究领域存在两大主流学术群体：群体1,其研究焦点为光解水制氢两大类,包括藻类光合制氢和蓝细菌等光合细胞制氢;群体2,其研究聚集在厌氧发酵制氢研究方面,又分为暗发酵制氢和光发酵制氢。其中厌氧发酵制氢的研究人员比较密集,说明这方面的研究是目前该领域的重点。     

生物燃料用酶专利现状与分析

随着石油资源的日益枯竭和环境污染的日益严重,生物能源的研发引起了全球各界的广泛重视。生物能源包括燃料乙醇（玉米乙醇和纤维素乙醇）、生物柴油、生物制氢、生物发电、沼气等,     

新型厌氧生物技术的研发现状与前景

伴随人类社会的进步和繁荣,环境污染、能源紧张和资源短缺问题迎面而来。由于在净化水体的同时还可产生能量或电能,也可生产有价值的化学品,厌氧生物技术已成为环境工程与能源及资源工程中的一项重要技术,越来越受到人们的重视。本文分别对厌氧发酵生物制氢技术、厌氧膜生物反应器技术、微生物燃料电池技术以及厌氧生物技术生产化学品4种新型厌氧生物技术进行综述．     

生物制氢——能源、资源、环境与经济可持续发展策略

人类面临能源危机、资源短缺、环境污染的严峻挑战,开发新的能源,合理利用资源并保护生态环境势在必行。氢能具有清洁、高效、可再生的特点,是未来重要的新能源物质。生物制氢技术利用可再生资源,特别是可利用工农业有机废弃物产氢,效率高,能耗低,污染少,成本低,具有巨大的发展潜力。本文简要阐述生物制氢技术及其发展状况,提出我国发展生物制氢技术,实现能源、资源、环境与经济可持续发展的政策建议。     

联合生物制氢方法及发展趋势

为了在生物制氢过程中最大限度提高产氢量和产氢速率,增大底物的利用率以及更好地发挥菌种间的协同作用,联合生物制氢技术成为近年来人们关注的焦点。综述了目前国内外几种联合生物制氢方法的研究现状。并从产氢机理的角度对几种联合制氢技术进行了分析比较,重点强调光合发酵和暗发酵联合生物制氢技术具有广泛的发展前景,并指出其存在的问题和未来的发展趋势。     

Hydrogen production by photosynthetic green algae

Oxygenic photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria, green algae and diatoms are capable of absorbing light and storing up to 10-13% of its energy into the H-H bond of hydrogen gas. This process, which takes advantage of the photosynthetic apparatus of these organisms to convert sunlight into chemical energy, could conceivably be harnessed for production of significant amounts of energy from a renewable resource, water. The harnessed energy could then be coupled to a fuel cell for electricity generation and recycling of water molecules. In this review, current biochemical understanding of this reaction in green algae, and some of the major challenges facing the development of future commercial algal photobiological systems for H2 production have been discussed.     

The permeability of liposomes to nonelectrolytes. I. Activation energies for permeation.

The effect of temperature on the permeability of nonelectrolytes across liposomal membranes above and below their transition temperature has been studied by using an osmotic method. Below their transition temperature, liposomes are osmotically insensitive structures but, on addition of gramicidin A, the water permeability so increased that the permeability of solutes could be studied. The measured activation energies for permeation of a variety of nonelectrolytes has been found to increase when a) there is an increase in the capability of the solutes to form hydrogen bonds in water, b) the cholesterol concentration in the membranes increases and c) the membranes pass from a liquid-crystalline to a solid-crystalline state. The change in the activation energy for permeation per hydrogen bond is about 1.8 kcal/mole for all the different liposome systems investigated; the only solute tested that deviated from this correlation was urea, whose activation energy for permeation across a gramicidin-containing system was much lower than expected from its hydrogen-bonding capacity. This finding suggests that urea is permeating across the gramicidin pore. Although the literature contains only incomplete data relating the activation energies for permeation of nonelectrolytes across biological membranes to their hydrogen-bonding capacity, the available evidence suggests that there is a similar correlation to that found in liposomes. Thus, the average increase in the activation energy per hydrogen bond for permeation across ox red cell membranes (Jacobs, Glassman & Parpart, J. Cell. Comp. Physiol. 7:197, 1935) is 2.2 plus or minus 0.4 kcal/mole, a value that is similar to that obtained in liposomes. However, the activation energies for water and urea are - in such a system - very much lower than expected, suggesting that they, too, are permeating by some parallel route such as an aqueous pore.     

Model for the conformational analysis of hydrated peptides. Effect of hydration on the conformational stability of the terminally blocked residues of the 20 naturally occurring amino acids

The effects of hydration are included in empirical conformational energy computations on oligopeptides by means of a modified hydration-shell model. Free energy terms are introduced to account for “specific hydration” due to water–solute hydrogen bonding and for “nonspecific hydration” describing the interaction of the solute with water molecules in a first-neighbor shell. The dielectric constant has been doubled (over the value used for calculations in the absence of water) to take into account the presence of solvent. Computations were carried out for the N-acetyl-N′-methylamides of the 20 naturally occurring amino acids. Conformational energy maps are compared with similar maps calculated in the absence of hydration. Minimum-energy conformations are located and compared with the corresponding minima for unhydrated peptides in terms of ordering with respect to potential energy, the dihedral angles at the minima, and the presence of intramolecular hydrogen bonds. The Boltzmann factors for various conformational regions are altered significantly on hydration in some cases. These changes can be explained in terms of differences in the hydration free energy terms for various conformations.     

Photosynthesis as a power supply for (bio-)hydrogen production

Although hydrogen is considered to be one of the most promising future energy sources and the technical aspects involved in using it have advanced considerably, the future supply of hydrogen from renewable sources is still unsolved. This review focuses on the production of hydrogen from water using biological catalysts that have been optimized by nature: the process of water-splitting photosynthesis on the one hand and hydrogen production via the catalyst hydrogenase on the other. Using water as a source of electrons and sunlight as a source of energy, both engineered natural systems and biomimetic (bio-inspired) model systems can be designed as first steps towards water-splitting-based hydrogen production (biophotolytic hydrogen production).     

Growth of Methanogens on a Mars Soil Simulant

Currently, the surface of Mars is probably too cold, too dry, and too oxidizing for life, as we know it, to exist. But the subsurface is another matter. Life forms that might exist below the surface could not obtain their energy from photosynthesis, but rather they would have to utilize chemical energy. Methanogens are one type of microorganism that might be able to survive below the surface of Mars. A potential habitat for existence of methanogens on Mars might be a geothermal source of hydrogen, possibly due to volcanic or hydrothermal activity, or the reaction of basalt and anaerobic water, carbon dioxide, which is abundant in the martian atmosphere, and of course, subsurface liquid water. We report here that certain methanogens can grow on a Mars soil simulant when supplied with carbon dioxide, molecular hydrogen, and varying amounts of water.     

Contribution of hydrogen bonds to the conformational stability of human lysozyme: calorimetry and X-ray analysis of six Ser --> Ala mutants.

To further examine the contribution of hydrogen bonds to the conformational stability of the human lysozyme, six Ser to Ala mutants were constructed. The thermodynamic parameters for denaturation of these six Ser mutant proteins were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and the crystal structures were determined by X-ray analysis. The denaturation Gibbs energy (DeltaG) of the Ser mutant proteins was changed from 2.0 to -5.7 kJ/mol, compared to that of the wild-type protein. With an analysis in which some factors that affected the stability due to mutation were considered, the contribution of hydrogen bonds to the stability (Delta DeltaGHB) was extracted on the basis of the structures of the mutant proteins. The results showed that hydrogen bonds between protein atoms and between a protein atom and a water bound with the protein molecule favorably contribute to the protein stability. The net contribution of one intramolecular hydrogen bond to protein stability (DeltaGHB) was 8.9 +/- 2.6 kJ/mol on average. However, the contribution to the protein stability of hydrogen bonds between a protein atom and a bound water molecule was smaller than that for a bond between protein atoms.     

Atmospheric constraints on the evolution of metabolism

Earth's early history may have been characterized by coevolution of microbial metabolism and atmospheric composition. Metabolic developments affected the composition of the atmosphere and the resultant changes in the atmosphere stimulated the evolution of new metabolic capabilities.The first organisms were presumably fermenting heterotrophs, exploiting organic molecules abiotically synthesized. These organisms multiplied, developing new biosynthetic capabilities to overcome deficiencies in the abiotic supply of particular compounds, until their growth was limited by the energy source provided by abiotic synthesis of fermentable organic compounds. Further growth required a new energy source, which may have been the chemical energy represented by the mixture of carbon dioxide and hydrogen in the primitive atmosphere. Chemotrophic organisms resembling methane bacteria may have evolved to exploit this source. They would have flourished, along with the heterotrophs that fed on them, until they had decreased the level of atmospheric hydrogen to the point where further extraction of chemical energy from the atmosphere was not possible. Once again, the expansion of life was limited by the availability of energy.The origin of bacterial photosynthesis overcame the second energy crisis. Photosynthetic bacteria could exploit the abundant energy of sunlight while using atmospheric hydrogen and reduced compounds derived from it only as electron donors. Life flourished again, drawing atmospheric hydrogen (replenished only by volcanoes) down to levels so low as to limit even bacterial photosynthesis. Before the full potential of photosynthesis could be exploited the evolution of the metabolic apparatus to process an electron donor of unlimited abundance was necessary. This donor, of course, was water, and the new metabolic process was algal photosynthesis. The oxygen released changed the world from anaerobic to aerobic and made possible the last great advance in energy-yielding metabolism, aerobic respiration.Proceedings of the Fourth College Park Colloquium on Chemical Evolution:Limits of Life, University of Maryland, College Park, 18–20 October 1978.     

Biohydrogen production from microalgae—Major bottlenecks and future research perspectives

The imprudent use of fossil fuels has resulted in high greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, leading to climate change and global warming. Reduction in GHG emissions and energy insecurity imposed by the depleting fossil fuel reserves led to the search for alternative sustainable fuels. Hydrogen is a potential alternative energy carrier and is of particular interest because hydrogen combustion releases only water. Hydrogen is also an important industrial feedstock. As an alternative energy carrier, hydrogen can be used in fuel cells for power generation. Current hydrogen production mainly relies on fossil fuels and is usually energy and CO₂-emission intensive, thus the use of fossil fuel-derived hydrogen as a carbon-free fuel source is fallacious. Biohydrogen production can be achieved via microbial methods, and the use of microalgae for hydrogen production is outstanding due to the carbon mitigating effects and the utilization of solar energy as an energy source by microalgae. This review provides comprehensive information on the mechanisms of hydrogen production by microalgae and the enzymes involved. The major challenges in the commercialization of microalgae-based photobiological hydrogen production are critically analyzed and future research perspectives are discussed. Life cycle analysis and economic assessment of hydrogen production by microalgae are also presented.     

Ruthenium Triazine Composite: A Good Match for Increasing Hydrogen Evolution Activity through Contact Electrification

The development of Pt‐free catalysts for the alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), which is widely used in industrial scale water‐alkali electrolyzers, remains a contemporary and pressing challenge. Ruthenium (Ru) has excellent water‐dissociation abilities and could be an alternative water splitting catalyst. However, its large hydrogen binding energy limits HER activity. Here, a new approach is proposed to boost the HER activity of Ru through uniform loading of Ru nanoparticles on triazine‐ring (C₃N₃)‐doped carbon (triNC). The composite (Ru/triNC) exhibits outstanding HER activity with an ultralow overpotential of ≈2 mV at 10 mA cm^?2; thereby making it the best performing electrocatalyst hitherto reported for alkaline HER. The calculated metal mass activity of Ru/triNC is >10 and 15 times higher than that of Pt/C and Pt/triNC. Both theoretical and experimental studies reveal that the triazine‐ring is a good match for Ru to weaken the hydrogen binding on Ru through interfacial charge transfer via increased contact electrification. Therefore, Ru/triNC can provide the optimal hydrogen adsorption free energy (approaching zero), while maintaining the strong water‐dissociation activity. This study provides a new avenue for designing highly efficient and stable electrocatalysts for water splitting.     

The Relationships between Nitrogen Fixation and Several Kinds of Energy Metabolism by Gloeocapsa sp

Gloeocapsa sp., a species of anicellular blue-green alga, fixes dinitrogen mostly under light. The energy (ATP and reductant) needed for nitrogen fixation may be provided by photoreaction and aerobic catabolism. The nitrogenase activity (acetylene reduction) in vivo was decreased under the conditions of dark and inhibition of photo-phosphorylation or oxidative phosphorylation in the light. When photosystem Ⅱ was inhibited by the presence of DCMU, nitrogenase activities in both reactions of acetylene reduction and hydrogen evolution may be muchenhanced probably due to eliminating of the damage caused by the oxygen produced in the photolysis of water. The effects of the oxygen present in the atmosphere of the reaction systemand produced by the cells are different. It is shown that some trace oxygen seems to be required for nitrogen fixation by the energy supply of aerobic actabolism and oxidative phosphorylation. While the fixation of dinitrogen was inhibited by CO or no any reducible substrate was present, 70-100% of the energy accepted by nitrogenase was evolved as hydrogen. The algal cells also showed hydrogen uptake reaction, but no enhancement of nitrogen fixation by the hydrogen uptake was found.