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Bioelectrochemical remediation of Cr(VI)/Cd(II)-contaminated soil in bipolar membrane microbial fuel cells

Journal

ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
Volume 186, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109582

Keywords

Soil remediation; Heavy metal; Microbial fuel cell; Ion exchange membrane

Funding

  1. Beijing Natural Science Foundation [8184085]
  2. Beijing Excellent Talents [2016000020124G117]
  3. Natural Science Foundation of China [21806185]
  4. Science Foundation of China University of Petroleum-Beijing [2462015YJRC016]

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Heavy-metal contaminated soils post great environmental and health concerns. In this study, Cr and Cd which are frequently observed in contaminated soils, were selected as representatives of hazardous heavy metals because of their different redox potentials and electric charges. Cr(VI)-, Cd(II)-, Cr(VI)/Cd(II)-contaminated soils were remediated in two-chamber air-cathode MFCs, in order to investigate the remediation of soil contaminated by single heavy metal and mixed heavy metals. Four ion exchange membranes (IEMs) were first evaluated to find out that bipolar membrane (BPM) was able to well maintain pH in both anolyte and catholyte, which was beneficial to support biological metabolism and heavy metal removal. It was also found that heavy metal ions (Cr, Cd or Cr/Cd) could migrate toward the cathode forming a concentration gradient under the weak electric field. The interaction between negatively charged Cr and positively charged Cd had no major effect to hinder each other on the migration, suggesting that the reduction reaction and electric field should be the main motivation for metal ion migration. The remediation performance of mixed heavy metal contaminated soil was superior to that of single heavy metal contaminated soil, for the possible reason of smaller internal resistance under mixed heavy metal condition.

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