Factors affecting homoacetogenesis of volatile fatty acids with CO2
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College of Engineering, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China

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Q939.9;S216.3

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    Industrial syngas contains a large amount of CO2, and the utilization of CO2 resources is of great significance to the current improvement of environment. The homoacetogenesis in the process of anaerobic fermentation has characteristics of autotrophy and heterotrophy. It can use CO2 and H2 to produce acetic acid, and degrade glucose to produce volatile fatty acids (VFAs). The autotrophic characteristics of homoacetogenic bacteria were used to study its ability to convert CO2 into resources and the effects of headspace H2/CO2 ratio, the type of carbon sources and pH on the synthesis of homoacetogenic reaction products. The results showed that high pH was beneficial for homoacetogenic bacteria to utilize H2/CO2 mixed gas for autotrophic reactions. When pH=5 and H2/CO2=3∶1, the yield of VFAs including acetic acid, propionic acid and butyric acid was the highest, reaching 3 369.89 mg/L, and the proportion of acetic acid was 76.1%. When glucose and H2/CO2 mixed gas were used as a common carbon source, the homoacetogenic bacteria preferentially used glucose for heterotrophic reaction, and then the H2/CO2 mixed gas began to be utilized. The results of correlation analysis showed that there was a weak positive correlation between the content of VFAs and the value of pH, but a negative correlation with H2/CO2, indicating that the content of CO2 has a greater impact on the autotrophic pathway of homoacetogens. A prediction model with BP neural network for homoacetogenic reaction was established, which accurately predicted the yield of VFAs synthesized by homoacetogenic bacteria with H2/CO2 mixed gas as the carbon source(R2=0.966).

    Fig.1 Experimental facility
    Fig.2 Production of VFAs at different pH and H2/CO2
    Fig.3 Gas consumption at different pH and different H2/CO2 values
    Fig.4 VFA production in homoacetogenic reaction under coexistence of gas and glucose
    Fig.5 Glucose consumption(A) and gas consumption(B) in in homoacetogenic reaction
    Fig.6 Glucose concentration and gas consumption
    Fig.7 Model training mean square errors(A)and linear regression of network input and output(B)
    Fig.8 Curve of actual output and predicted output
    Table 1 Correlation analysis table
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申瑞延,姚冬杰,陈望学,郑颖,王媛媛. Factors affecting homoacetogenesis of volatile fatty acids with CO2[J]. Jorunal of Huazhong Agricultural University,2025,44(2):293-300.

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  • Received:March 13,2024
  • Online: April 02,2025
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