Energy carrier of the fumeless future

With the finite sources of fossil fuel reserves, there is an urgent need to look into the different sources of renewable sources of energy. Biohydrogen production a microbial way of releasing stress is a possible way to exploit it for the production of the clean fuel hydrogen for commercial utilization and also a means to mitigate the ill effects of the fossil fuel based energy sources. The current limitation on biohydrogen production includes the low photo conversion rates, cost of bioreactors and less research work on economically viable substrates for the microbes that produce biohydrogen. With the recent advancements in microbial technologies, a wide range of approaches to generate biohydrogen have come into effect. They include either photo-fermentation, dark reactions or a hybrid system involving biophotolysis and fermentations. in thei proposal an aim for selection and isolation of new organisms and or new biocatalyst systems that possess more efficient H2-producing properties will be attempted.The goal of the proposed work is to develop insight and direction in an innovative way for H2 production utilizing indigenous microbes.