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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 394, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.122519
Keywords
Waste activated sludge; Microbial electrolysis cell; CO2 sequestration; Mineral carbonation; Microbial community
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51678280, 51708253]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [JUSRP11820]
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Microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) has excellent CH4 production performance, however, CO2 still remains in the produced biogas at high content. For achieving in-situ CO2 sequestration and thus upgrading biogas, mineral carbonation was integrated into a MEC treating sludge hydrolysate. With 19 g/L wollastonite addition, in-situ mineral CO2 sequestration was achieved by formation of calcite precipitates. CH4 content in the biogas was increased by 5.1 % and reached 95.9 %, with CH4 production improved by 16.9 %. In addition, the removals of polysaccharide, protein, and chemical oxygen demand (COD) of the MEC were increased by 4.4 %, 6.7 %, and 8.4 %, respectively. The generated precipitates rarely accumulated on bio-cathode, and did not significantly affect the morphology of cathode biofilm. However, integrating mineral carbonation resulted in a higher relative abundance of Methanosarcina on anode and slightly decreased the ratio of Methanobacterium to Methanosaeta on cathode, which should be noticed. In conclusion, integrating mineral carbonation is an attractive way to improve the performance of MEC by achieving in-situ CO2 sequestration, accompanied with CH4 production enhancement.
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