Abstract
We researched concerning the new energy technology of producing the hydrogen gases with the organic refuse by using sunlight and phototropic bacteria. Electricity can be generated by supplying the produced hydrogen gases to the fuel cell. Hydrogen production efficiency enough to put it to practical use has not been obtained in the past though a full-scale experiment for the hydrogen production that uses algae and the microorganism that does the photosynthesis has been conducted. That is, the cost performance for practical use is not obtained. We did an experimental research that used the wavelength conversion material of sunlight and the optical reflection material of the aluminum foil as a method for the efficiency gain of the hydrogen production. As a result, the design parameter of the system to produce hydrogen with the waste fluid by using the purple non-sulfur bacteria that carried out photosynthesis was able to be decided. Substrate (The sugar manufacture waste fluid: [Molasses]) dosage in which the highest incidence of hydrogen was obtained was 0.4mg/100kcells*day for the pure culture system. Moreover, the improvement of the hydrogen production efficiency of about 15% was obtained in the maximum with a light wave length conversion net. A design parameter of the biomass hydrogen energy production system and basic data concerning the efficiency gain of the system were able to be obtained from the above-mentioned results.
