Technology Outline (Process Description)

The project is to develop and demonstrate an integrated, cost-effective and environmentally sustainable biorefinery process to produce green H2 (1,60,000 L/15 kg per day) as main product using solid waste (biogenic municipal). Dark-fermentation embedded biorefinery platform is designed with reference to the proof of concept (TRL-5) by integrating unit operations viz., Acidogenesis, Methanogenic, Hybrid-Aerobic-Anoxic, and Mixotrophic-algal process towards H2 production as main product followed by biomethane, volatile fatty acids (short chain), bioplastics (PHA) and algal biomass (protein based for animal/ fish feed) along with treated water (for recycling) and oxygen as by-products with net zero emissions. Integration of dark- fermentation with other bioprocesses aims at maximizing the product(s) synthesis and resource recovery by putting back the unutilized carbon into the ecological loop in the biorefinery approach.