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An anaerobic maifanite-immobilized sludge reactor was used to investigate continuous hydrogen production for treatment of pharmaceutical intermediate wastewater at different organic loading rates according to changes in the hydraulic retention time.

Anaerobic continuous stirring tank reactor (CSTR) was employed for biohydrogen production by anaerobic co-digestion from the mixture of herbal wastewater (HW) and monosodium glutamate wastewater (MGW). A series of blend volumetric proportions (MGW/HW), organic loading rates (OLR) were used as control strategy and evaluated for optimal biohydrogen production. The highest biohydrogen production of 7260±7.7 mL L-1 d-1 was attained at blend proportion of 15%, OLR of 41 g COD L-1 d-1 while the highest biohydrogen yield of 508.9±7.2 mL g CODremoved-1 was observed at same conditions. This study demonstrated the feasibility and effectiveness of enhanced biohydrogen production by adding MGW to compensate the low nitrogen content of HW.