Electricity generation from bio-treatment of sewage sludge with microbial fuel cell

Performance of Microbial Fuel Cell for Wastewater Treatment and Electricity Generation

“…To increase the porosity of PEM, it was pretreated according to procedure described by Junqiu Jiang (Jiang et al 2009). PEM prior to use must keep in deionized water .Carbon cloth and graphite flat (6cm×6cm) without any coating used as electrode in anode and cathode respectively.…”

“…Previous studies showed that E. coli (Schroder et al 2003), Shewanella putrefaciens (Kim et al 2002), Shewanella oneidensis (Biffinger et al 2008) Geobacteraceae sulferreducens (Bond and Lovley, 2003) Rhodoferax ferrireducens (Chaudhuri and Lovley, 2003) would used. Several studies showed that organic compounds such as glucose (Chaudhuri and Lovley, 2003), acetate or butyrate , domestic wastewater (Ahn and Logan, 2010;Jiang et al 2009), swine wastewater (Bookie et al 2005), beer brewery wastewater (Wen et al 2009), chocolate industry wastewater (Patil et al 2009) were used as substrate in MFC. In 2004 the research studies showed that there is a directly relationship between electricity production from MFC and wastewater treatment (Logan, 2007).…”

“…Ahn and Logan (2010) in a study conducted on domestic wastewater treatment with MFC found out that Power density and COD removal were 422 mW/m 2 and 25.8% respectively. According to Junqiu Jiang, MFC can generate electricity from sewage sludge and Total chemical oxygen demand (TCOD) of the sludge was reduced to 46.4% (Jiang et al 2009). Rismani-Yazdi et al (2007), reported the in bio conversation of cellulose into electrical energy in microbial fuel cells, Maximum power density reached 55 mW/m 2 (1.5 mA, 313mV).…”

Evaluation of electricity production from alkaline pretreated sludge using two-chamber microbial fuel cell

“…MFCs can produce electricity from a variety of materials including organic wastes [12], such as brewery wastewater [13], starch processing wastewater [14], paper recycling wastewater [15], and sludge [9,[16][17][18][19][20]. The electricity production from sewage sludge is lower.…”

“…Dentel et al [16] first reported electricity production from sludge using sediment MFC and obtained a maximum electrical current of roughly 0.065 mA and a maximum voltage of 0.517 V. Since then, much research has been published on this topic in the academic community. Jiang et al [17] obtained a maximum power density of 8.5 W/m 3 from sludge using a two-chamber MFC and Liu et al [18] obtained a maximum voltage of 440.7 mV and a maximum power density of 220.7 mW/m 2 by using a single-chamber, membrane-less and floating-cathode MFC.…”