Journal
WATER ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH
Volume 92, Issue 1, Pages 60-72Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/wer.1183
Keywords
microbial fuel cells; pilot-scale demonstration; swine wastewater; wastewater treatment
Funding
- Roddenberry Foundation
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Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have long held the promise of being a cost-effective technology for the energy-neutral treatment of wastewater. However, successful pilot-scale demonstrations for this technology are still limited to very few. Here, we present a large-scale MFC system, composed of 12 MFCs with a total volume of 110 L, successfully treating swine wastewater at a small educational farm. The system was operated for over 200 days in continuous mode with hydraulic residence time of 4 hr. Very stable electrochemical and waste treatment performance was observed with up to 65% of chemical oxygen demand (COD) removed and a maximum treatment rate of 5.0 kg COD/m(3).day. Robust microbial enrichment was performed and adapted to metabolize and transform a diversity of compounds present. The Net Energy Recovery (NER = 0.11 kWhr/kg COD) is not only competitive with conventional cogeneration processes, but is in fact sufficient to sustain the operational energy requirements of the system. (C) 2019 Water Environment Federation
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