Corn stover powers 40% more energy through optimized bio-hydrogen and bio-methane cogeneration.
In this research, scientists looked at making bio-hydrogen and bio-methane from corn stalks more efficient. They created a special model and used genetic algorithms to find the best conditions. After analyzing, they found that the best results came at a substrate concentration of 60 grams per liter, a starting pH of 7, and a coupling time of 12 hours. With these settings, the exergy efficiency increased by 72.68% compared to not having an optimization. The exergy efficiency with the optimized conditions reached up to 40.46%, which means they got a lot more energy out of the process than before.