Nanomaterials

Chapter 9Nanomaterials for Biohydrogen Production

Periyasamy Sivagurunathan^1,2,*, Abudukeremu Kadier³, Ackmez Mudhoo⁴, Gopalakrishnan Kumar⁵, Kuppam Chandrasekhar⁶, Takuro Kobayashi⁷ and Kaiqin Xu⁷

¹Green Energy Technology Research Group, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

²Faculty of Environment and Labour Safety, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

³Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, National University of Malaysia (UKM), Selangor, Malaysia

⁴Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mauritius, Republic of Mauritius

⁵Department of Environmental Engineering, Daegu University, South Korea

⁶School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Dong-Daegu, South Korea

⁷Center for Materials Cycles and Waste Management Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan

^*Corresponding author: [e-mail]

Abstract

The rapid growth of the biofuels sector address the key issues related with fossil fuels utilization, such as reducing the greenhouse gas emissions, and sustainable and renewable fuels production. Among various biofuels option, biohydrogen production is a novel biotechnological tool that can be converting the organic matter into a valuable energy with simultaneous waste disposal. Hydrogen is an excellent energy carrier with a greatest energy potential of 122 kJ/g and about 2.75 times ...