Biohydrogen - Advances and Processes

本書介紹了生物氫產生的概念，以及從生物資源中生產這種最清潔的生物燃料的最新進展和發展。

生物氫相對於重量具有最高的能量含量，並且燃燒時非常乾淨，只產生水。它是燃料電池的最佳選擇，可以直接與氧氣反應產生電力。生物氫在哺乳動物的消化氣體中自然生成，也可以通過特殊設計的厭氧生物消化器或者與微藻進行光催化反應來生產。這種氣體也很容易純化和使用。

生物氫的經濟生產仍然面臨著許多挑戰：從高效快速轉化底物到儲存、運輸和安全使用，有許多方面需要開發。

該領域的研究從多個方向解決了大規模高效生產的問題：底物預處理以提高可消化性，代謝網絡分析，微生物多樣性和演替以突顯生產中的限制，生物反應器和下游設計以提高產量並降低成本，等等。

本書介紹的理念和技術有助於實現聯合國可持續發展目標7：可負擔和清潔能源。

本書針對對生物精煉和生物燃料技術感興趣的研究人員和學生撰寫。

Professor Carlos Ricardo Soccol is a research group leader within the Department of Bioprocesses Engineering and Biotechnology (DEBB) at the Federal University of Paraná. Professor Soccol has experience in bioprocessing/biological engineering, industrial biotechnology, biofuel technology, applied microbiology and fermentation technology. His research has resulted in 1418 publications, including 111 patents, 31 books, 175 book chapters, 511 original papers and 590 research communications at conferences/symposia. His research articles have so far been cited more than 40.000 times on Google Scholar (H-index = 95). He has also successfully supervised 91 doctoral students, 135 master's students, and 24 post-doctoral students. He is Professor HDR at the University of AIX-Marseille-France (2001- ). He was a visiting professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (2009), University Lille 1-France (2014) and University Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand-France (2015). He has received several national and international awards, including the Science and Technology Award of the Government of Paraná (1996), Best Scientific Achievement of the Year 2001 by Ministry of Sugar of Cuba (MINAZ), The Scopus/Elsevier Award (2009), Dr Honoris Causa, University Blaise Pascal-France (2010), Outstanding Scientist at 5th International Conference on Industrial Bioprocesses, Taipei, Taiwan, Henri Nestlé Award - Nestlé, Brazil (2014), Scientist of the Year - Nanocell Institute (2017), Medal of Scientific Merit by Ministry Science Technology and Innovation - Brazilian Government (2018). Since 2014, Professor Soccol is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and editor-in-chief of the Journal Biotechnology Research Innovation. He also holds the position of scientist IA of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development - CNPq, Brazil. He is a technical and scientific consultant for several companies, and agencies and a co-editor and editorial board member of several scientific journals.

Professor Satinder Kaur Brar is the James and Joanne Love Chair in Environmental Engineering and Director of One WATER Institute at York University. Her research is on the intersecting areas of environmental engineering and its impact on the overall well-being of the global community. She primarily works in the two converging fields of value-addition of wastes and removal of emerging contaminants. Many national and international awards and honors have been bestowed on her that prove her research mettle. Notable ones being, in 2021, Best Paper Award, and in 2019, Eddy Principles/Processes Wastewater Medal winner, honored by the Water Environment Federation; in 2017, her research on "Novel and Advanced Hybrid Oxidation and Enzymatic Technologies for Emerging Trace Environmental Contaminants" were awarded the Grand Prize in University Research for Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists (AAEES). She was recently inducted into the European Academy of Sciences in 2021 and has been a member of the College of New Scholars, Scientists and Artists of the Royal Society of Canada, since 2014. She leads the Bioprocessing and NanoEnzyme Formulation Facility (BANEFF) at York University and this unit has successfully led to the training of 72 HQPs (including 45 undergraduates and summer interns). Currently, she is supervising 4 PDFs, 2 research associates, one research assistant, 11 Ph.D.s and 2 M.Scs. She has published more than 400 articles, edited 12 books and at least 55 invited talks to her credit.

Professor Kugen Permaul obtained his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His early research projects focused on bacterial molecular genetics, especially plasmid biology. He graduated with a Ph.D. in 1999 and spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow before leading the Enzyme Technology Research Group at the Durban University of Technology - a focus area of research at DUT. He has steadily progressed up the academic ranks and was awarded a full professorship in 2011. He was appointed Head of the Department of Biotechnology and Food Science from 2014-2017. His research projects involved: the detection and quantification of mycotoxins in food commodities; production of potable water by ultrafiltration; characterisation and production of amylase, inulinase and chitinase enzymes; directed evolution and expression of a xylanase enzyme and genomic sequencing of a thermophilic fungus. Current research projects focus on the expression of carbohydrase genes; and the use of chitin as a bioresource. He was the principal investigator of a BRICS bioethanol project involving researchers from universities from all 5 BRICS nations and is involved in a new BRICS biohydrogen grant until 2025. Current supervision includes 4 PhD and 8 Masters students with 9 doctoral and 21 Masters completed.

Professor Kannan Pakshirajan specializes in the biological removal and recovery of metals and non-metals from waste. He is a professor of environmental biotechnology at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Guwahati, Assam, India. Since 2004, he has been conducting research at IIT Guwahati focusing on xenobiotic biodegradation, cleaner production of biosurfactants, biofuels and biopolymers, and biorefinery. He served as a Visiting Researcher at the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands, during 2011-2012, and at the University of Galway, Ireland, during the year 2019. He has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and 20 book chapters and co-edited two books. He has guided twenty PhD students and many master's students and trained several postdoctoral researchers thus far. He has completed nine major research projects, sponsored by different funding agencies, as the principal investigator (PI). He is an active life member of renowned professional societies which include the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE), Bioprocessing Society - India (BPI) and Biotechnology Research Consortium of India (BRSI).

Dr. Júlio C. de Carvalho is a chemical engineer and professor of the Graduate Course of Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology at the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil. After earning his PhD in biotechnological processes in 2004, he joined UFPR as faculty, having worked with FD&C bioadditives (especially biopigments and lipids), bioprocess modelling, microalgal biotechnology, bio-based chemicals (especially itaconic acid), and engineering education. He has published 96 papers, 53 book chapters, and registered 25 patents. With an H-index = 34 and 4781 citations (GScholar), Dr. Carvalho has advised students for 6 Doctoral theses and 13 Masters dissertations. He is currently engaged in research that supports scaling-up and integration of bioprocesses, for biohydrogen, microalgal biomass and bioadditives production.

Carlos Ricardo Soccol教授是巴拉那聯邦大學生物過程工程與生物技術系（DEBB）的研究小組負責人。Soccol教授在生物處理/生物工程、工業生物技術、生物燃料技術、應用微生物學和發酵技術方面具有豐富經驗。他的研究成果包括1418篇論文，其中包括111項專利、31本書、175篇書章、511篇原始論文和590篇會議/研討會研究報告。他的研究文章在Google Scholar上已被引用超過40,000次（H指數=95）。他還成功指導了91名博士生、135名碩士生和24名博士後研究員。他是法國AIX-Marseille大學的HDR教授（2001年至今）。他曾是瑞士洛桑聯邦理工學院（2009年）、法國里爾第一大學（2014年）和法國克萊蒙費朗布萊斯·帕斯卡大學（2015年）的訪問教授。他獲得了多項國家和國際獎項，包括巴拉那州政府科學與技術獎（1996年）、古巴糖業部（MINAZ）2001年度最佳科學成就獎、Scopus/Elsevier獎（2009年）、法國克萊蒙費朗布萊斯·帕斯卡大學名譽博士學位（2010年）、台灣台北第五屆國際工業生物過程會議傑出科學家獎、巴西雀巢公司亨利·雀巢獎（2014年）、南細胞研究所年度科學家獎（2017年）和巴西政府科學技術和創新部科學功勳獎章（2018年）。自2014年以來，Soccol教授是巴西科學院的成員，並擔任《生物技術研究創新》期刊的主編。他還擔任巴西國家科學和技術發展委員會（CNPq）的科學家IA職位。他是多家公司和機構的技術和科學顧問，並擔任多個科學期刊的副編和編輯委員會成員。

Satinder Kaur Brar教授是約克大學環境工程的James and Joanne Love講座教授，也是One WATER研究所的所長。她的研究涉及環境工程與全球社區整體福祉的交叉領域。她主要從事廢物增值和新興污染物去除這兩個相關領域的研究。她獲得了許多國家和國際獎項和榮譽，證明了她的研究實力。其中值得注意的是，2021年獲得了最佳論文獎，2019年獲得了由水環境聯合會頒發的Eddy Principles/Processes Wastewater獎章；2017年，她的研究“新型和先進的混合氧化和酶技術用於新興微量環境污染物”的研究獲得了美國環境工程和科學學會（AAEES）頒發的環境工程和科學卓越大獎。她最近於2021年被歐洲科學院錄用，自2014年以來一直是加拿大皇家學會新學者、科學家和藝術家學院的成員。她領導著約克大學的生物處理和納米酶配方設施（BANEFF），該設施成功培養了72名高質量人才（包括45名本科生和暑期實習生）。目前，她指導著4名博士後研究員、2名研究聯合執行人、1名研究助理、11名博士生和2名碩士生。她發表了400多篇文章，編輯了12本書，並至少發表了55次邀請演講。

Kugen Permaul教授在南非夸祖魯-納塔爾大學獲得了學士和碩士學位。他早期的研究項目集中在細菌分子遺傳學，尤其是質體生物學方面。他於1999年獲得博士學位，並在擔任博士後研究員一年後，領導了酶技術研究。