Journal
WATER RESEARCH
Volume 159, Issue -, Pages 87-94Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.04.053
Keywords
Microbial electrosynthesis; Microbial electrochemical technology; Extracellular electron transfer; Formic acid; Microbial fuel cell
Funding
- National Science Foundation of China [51478447, 51878175]
- Program for Innovative Research Team in Science and Technology in Fujian Province University (IRTSTFJ)
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Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) has been proposed as a sustainable platform to simultaneously achieve wastewater treatment, renewable energy generation and chemicals production. Currently, the CO2 valorization via MES is restricted by the low production rate, while that via electrochemical reduction is limited by the production of Cl products with high efficiency and selectivity. The electrocatalyst-assisted MES could potentially solve these bottlenecks of both MES and electrochemical reduction technology by increasing the production rate and expanding the product range. Here, four types of metals were evaluated for mixed culture-based, electrocatalyst-assisted MES with the fabrication of electrical-biological hybrid cathodes. Cathodes based on In, Zn, Ti and Cu showed high parallelism at 30 A/m(2). However, no parallelism was observed at 50 A/m(2), and only Zn experienced a further increase of the maximum acetic acid production rate (1.23 +/- 0.02 g/L/d, 313 +/- 5 g/m(2)/d) and titer (9.2 +/- 0.1 g/L), with the highest value of the production rate normalized to the project area of the fiber cathodes. Other volatile fatty acids and ethanol were below 0.5 g/L. Moreover, it was the sharp H-2 generation, which mainly caused the fluctuation of coulombic efficiency. The application of such Zn-based electrical-biological hybrid system shall provide a more efficient route for CO2 valorization. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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