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Bioresource Technology 101 (2010) 4508–4512 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Bioresource Technology journal homepage: www.elsevier .com/locate/biortech Coupling of the hydrogen and polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) production through anaerobic digestion from Taihu blue algae Qun Yan a,b,*, Minxing Zhao b, Hengfeng Miao a,b, Wenquan Ruan a,b, Rentao Song c a School of Environmental and Civil Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China b Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China c Shanghai Key Laboratory of Bio-Energy Crops, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Coupling bio-production of hydrogen and polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) from Taihu blue algae through Received 9 November 2009 metabolites circulation was investigated. It was found that the pH adjustment, especially basification Received in revised form 18 January 2010 was more practical and efficient than other methods for the pretreatment of blue algae before anaerobic Accepted 20 January 2010 digestion. On this occasion, SCOD, biogas accumulation and hydrogen content reached 26 mg/gTS, Available online 12 February 2010 500 mL and 37.2%, and which were 4.3, 1.3 and 14.4 times of those of the control group, respectively. Sec- ondly, amounts of both butyric acid and hydrogen could be further increased when blue algae was al