Anaerobic microbial fuel cell treating combined industrial wastewater: Correlation of electricity generation with pollutants

Abbasi, Umara; Wang, Jin; Pervez, Arshid; Bhatti, Zulfiqar Ahmad; Tariq, Madiha; Shaheen, Shahida; Iqbal, Akhtar; Mahmood, Qaisar

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2015.09.088

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“…Wastewater from petroleum industry, municipal, and agricultural have been successfully employed as a source for MFC substrate (Karthikeyan et al, 2016;Ge et al, 2015;Guo et al, 2016;Abbasi et al, 2016). In addition, Heilmann and Logan (2006) also confirmed the possibility of using rich protein meat packing wastewater (MPW) as substrate and successfully reduce chemical oxygen demand (COD) and biological oxygen demand (BOD) value and at the same time generate electricity through MFC system.…”

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confidence: 72%

Microbial Fuel Cells for Simultaneous Electricity Generation and Organic Degradation from Slaughterhouse Wastewater

Christwardana

Prabowo

Tiarasukma

et al. 2016

Int. J. Renew. Energy Dev.

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Microbial fuel Cell (MFC) has gained a lot of attention in recent years due to its capability in simultaneously reducing organic component and generating electricity. Here multicultural rumen microbes (RM) were used to reduce organic component of slaughterhouse wastewater in a self-fabricated MFC. The objectives of this study were to determine the MFC configuration and to find out its maximum capability in organic degradation and electricity generation. The experiments were conducted by employing, different types of electrode materials, electrode size, and substrate-RM ratio. Configuration of MFC with graphite-copper electrode 31.4 cm2 in size, and substrate-RM ratio 1:10 shows the best result with current density of 318 mA m-2, potential 2.4 V, and achieve maximum power density up to 700 mW m-2. In addition, self-fabricated MFC also shows its ability in reducing organic component by measuring the chemical oxygen demand (COD) up to 67.9% followed by increasing pH from 5.9 to 7.5. MFC operating at ambient condition (29oC and pH 7.5), is emphasized as green-technology for slaughterhouse wastewater treatment. Article History: Received March 26, 2016; Received in revised form June 20, 2016; Accepted June 25, 2016; Available onlineHow to Cite This Article: Prabowo, A.K., Tiarasukma, A.P., Christwardana, M. and Ariyanti, D. (2016) Microbial Fuel Cells for Simultaneous Electricity Generation and Organic Degradation from Slaughterhouse Wastewater. Int. Journal of Renewable Energy Development, 5(2), 107-112.http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/ijred.5.2.107-112

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Microbial Fuel Cells for Simultaneous Electricity Generation and Organic Degradation from Slaughterhouse Wastewater

Christwardana

Prabowo

Tiarasukma

et al. 2016

Int. J. Renew. Energy Dev.

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“…The advantage of microbial fuel cells is that they can treat wastewater and produce electricity at the same time. Different levels of wastewater have been treated using MFCs technology, such as distillery wastewater [3], industrial wastewater [4], livestock wastewater [5], and domestic wastewater [6,7]. In these studies, bioelectricity generation is mainly achieved using natural microflora.…”

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Effect of Electrode Coating with Graphene Suspension on Power Generation of Microbial Fuel Cells

2018

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Microbial fuel cells (MFCs), which can generate low-pollution power through microbial decomposition, are a potentially vital technology with applications in environmental protection and energy recovery. The electrode materials used in MFCs are crucial determinants of their capacity to generate electricity. In this study, we proposed an electrode surface modification method to enhance the bacterial adhesion and increase the power generation in MFCs. Graphene suspension (GS) is selected as modifying reagent, and thin films of graphene are fabricated on an electrode substrate by spin-coating. Application of this method makes it easy to control the thickness of graphene film. Moreover, the method has the advantage of low cost and large-area fabrication. To understand the practicality of the method, the effects of the number of coating layers and drying temperature of the graphene films on the MFCs' performance levels are investigated. The results indicate that when the baking temperature is increased from 150 to 325 • C, MFC power generation can increase approximately 4.5 times. Besides, the maximum power density of MFCs equipped with a four-layer graphene anode is approximately four times that of MFCs equipped with a two-layer graphene anode. An increase in baking temperature or number of coating layers of graphene films enhances the performance of MFC power generation. The reason can be attributed to the graphene purity and amount of graphene adhering to the surface of electrode.

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“…a. TC-MFC stands for two-chamber microbial fuel cell and SC-MFC stands for single-chamber microbial fuel. (Abbasi et al, 2016) a. TC-MFC stands for two-chamber microbial fuel cell and SC-MFC stands for single-chamber microbial fuel cell. a. TC-MEC stands for two-chamber microbial electrolysis cell and SC-MEC stands for single-chamber microbial electrolysis cell.…”

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Sustainable Waste-to-Energy Technologies: Bioelectrochemical Systems

Ziara

Dvorak

Subbiah

2018

Sustainable Food Waste-to-Energy Systems

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Anaerobic microbial fuel cell treating combined industrial wastewater: Correlation of electricity generation with pollutants

Cited by 64 publications

References 27 publications

Microbial Fuel Cells for Simultaneous Electricity Generation and Organic Degradation from Slaughterhouse Wastewater

Microbial Fuel Cells for Simultaneous Electricity Generation and Organic Degradation from Slaughterhouse Wastewater

Effect of Electrode Coating with Graphene Suspension on Power Generation of Microbial Fuel Cells

Sustainable Waste-to-Energy Technologies: Bioelectrochemical Systems

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