Journal
WATER RESEARCH
Volume 147, Issue -, Pages 461-471Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2018.10.020
Keywords
Flowback water treatment; Simultaneous removal of COD and iron; Microbial fuel cell; Sulfur cycle; Sulfur-oxidizing bacteria
Funding
- Scientific Research Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Coal Mine Disaster Dynamics and Control [2011DA105287-ZD201505]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [51778083, 51808067]
- Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing in China [cstc2017jcyjBX0042]
- Chongqing Research Program of Basic Research and Frontier Technology [cstc2016jcyjA0506]
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The high volume of flowback water (FW) generated during shale gas exploitation is highly saline, and contains complex organics, iron, heavy metals, and sulfate, thereby posing a significant challenge for the environmental management of the unconventional natural gas industry. Herein, the treatment of FW in a sulfur-cycle-mediated microbial fuel cell (MFC) is reported. Simultaneous removal efficiency for chemical oxygen demand (COD) and total iron from a synthetic FW was achieved, at 72 +/- 7% and 90.6 +/- 8.7%, respectively, with power generation of 2667 +/- 529 mW/m(3) in a closed-circuit MFC (CC-MFC). However, much lower iron removal (38.5 +/- 4.5%) occurred in the open-circuit MFC (OC-MFC), where the generated FeS fine did not precipitate because of sulfide supersaturation. Enrichment of both sulfur-oxidizing bacteria (SOB), namely Helicobacteraceae in the anolyte and the electricity-producing bacteria, namely Desulfuromonadales on the anode likely accelerated the sulfur cycle through the biological and bioelectrochemical oxidation of sulfide in the anodic chamber, and effectively increased the molar ratio of total iron to sulfide, thus alleviating sulfide supersaturation in the closed circuitry. Enrichment of SOB in the anolyte might be attributed to the formation of FeS electricity wire and likely contributed to the stable high power generation. Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, and Chloroflexi enriched in the anodic chamber were responsible for degrading complex organics in the FW. The treatment of real FW in the sulfur-cycle-mediated MFC also achieved high efficiency. This research provides a promising approach for the treatment of wastewater containing organic matters, heavy metals, and sulfate by using a sulfur-cycle-mediated MFC. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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