Hydrogen economy and storage by nanoporous microalgae diatom: Special emphasis on designing photobioreactors

Anshuman Rai; Mohd Jahir Khan; Ankesh Ahirwar; Rahul Deka; Nikhil Singh; Benoit Schoefs; Justine Marchand; Sunita Varjani; Vandana Vinayak

doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.01.057

Hydrogen economy and storage by nanoporous microalgae diatom: Special emphasis on designing photobioreactors

Anshuman Rai, Mohd Jahir Khan, Ankesh Ahirwar, Rahul Deka, Nikhil Singh, Benoit Schoefs, Justine Marchand, Sunita Varjani^*, Vandana Vinayak^*

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Storing multiple energy forms from microalgae is not only facile but also lowers the cost of culturing the microalgae. Among many microalgae, diatoms are microscopic glass menageries which are responsible for converting stored lipids and biomass into hydrogen, besides fixing 25% of global CO2. Besides this their silica frustules are also nature's naturally available bionanomaterials which have immense applications in nanotechnology for hydrogen production and other energy storage. The diatom frustules get hybridized with various chemical and biological components to generate or store hydrogen in various fuel cells. In laboratory these live diatoms can be allowed to culture in various designed solar panel photobioreactors better known as diatom solar panels for high and low value-added products essentially biofuel and fucoxanthin. The present review thus discusses about possible scope and approaches to produce hydrogen from live diatom and as well as from its biomass in specially designed photobioreactors. This truly has economic aspects of hydrogen production from diatoms in comparison to other microalgae which needs to be explored for its wide applications due to its robustness and abundance occurrence.

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	42099-42121
Number of pages	23
Journal	International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
Volume	47
Issue number	100
Online published	5 Feb 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.01.057
Publication status	Published - 30 Dec 2022
Externally published	Yes

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Biomass
Diatom
Hydrogen
Microalgae
Nanotechnology
Photobioreactors

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