TY - JOUR AU - Rittmann, Simon AU - Herwig, Christoph PY - 2012 DA - 2012/08/27 TI - A comprehensive and quantitative review of dark fermentative biohydrogen production JO - Microbial Cell Factories SP - 115 VL - 11 IS - 1 AB - Biohydrogen production (BHP) can be achieved by direct or indirect biophotolysis, photo-fermentation and dark fermentation, whereof only the latter does not require the input of light energy. Our motivation to compile this review was to quantify and comprehensively report strains and process performance of dark fermentative BHP. This review summarizes the work done on pure and defined co-culture dark fermentative BHP since the year 1901. Qualitative growth characteristics and quantitative normalized results of H2 production for more than 2000 conditions are presented in a normalized and therefore comparable format to the scientific community. SN - 1475-2859 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2859-11-115 DO - 10.1186/1475-2859-11-115 ID - Rittmann2012 ER -