Evaluation of microwave pretreated waste dry fig for biohydrogen production

Ozmihci, Serpil; Hacıoglu, Ilknur

Evaluation of microwave pretreated waste dry fig for biohydrogen production

2023

Ozmihci, Serpil | Hacıoglu, Ilknur

In the study, the best conditions for aflatoxin removal and the highest dissolved sugar were determined by applying microwave pretreatment (250-800W) to waste dried figs. Biohydrogen production performances of aflatoxin-free dried figs were evaluated by testing different substrate (11.8-118 g/L) and different organism concentrations (0.5-2.5 g/L). The optimum microwave of the microwave pretreatment process, giving the highest dissolved sugar concentration (89.7 g/L) from 100 g/L waste dried figs was 400 W and the treatment time was 10 minutes. Under these conditions, 46.2% hydrolysis of sugars and 77.8% aflatoxin removal were achieved. At the initial substrate concentration of 59 g/L, the highest cumulative volume of hydrogen gas, hydrogen gas production yield, hydrogen gas production rate were found as 161.9 mL, 207.5 mL H2/g total sugar, 1.75 mL/hour, respectively. Although lactic acid was produced in high amounts from organic acids produced in experiments using different substrate concentrations, it has been observed that it is converted into butyric acid in some experiments. This resulted as an increase in biohydrogen gas production. In different organism amount experiments, it was observed that sugar was consumed in all experiments and hydrogen gas was produced successfully. Butyric acid was the main organic acid in the experimental media where the highest hydrogen gas production yield was produced in 1 g/L as 124.28 mL H2/g total sugar. The specific hydrogen gas production rate (SHPR) decreased with increasing organism concentrations. The highest SHPR was obtained with 0.5 g/L organism concentration as 3.83 mL H2/g biomass hour.

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