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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 748, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141046
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Microbial desalination cells (MDCs); Microbial electrolysis desalination cells (MEDCs); Hybrid desalination system; Scaling up; Challenges
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- faculty of engineering, University of Sharjah
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Bio-electrochemical systems (BESs) use electroactive micro-organisms for degrading organic materials in wastes for energy and/or chemical production. Microbial based desalination system is a cost-effective and environmentally friendly technique that can be used for water desalination with simultaneous wastewater treatment and energy harvesting. These systems can be used as a standalone technology for water desalination such as microbial desalination cell, microbial electrolysis desalination cell, or a hybrid with other desalination technology. This review summarized the recent progress in using BESs for water desalination, including microbial fuel cell-based desalination (MDC) and microbial electrolysis cell-based desalination (MEDC). The different scaling up trials to commercialize this technology, including the controlling parameters, are discussed. Moreover, the different hybrid desalination systems based on BES are summarized. Finally, the challenges facing the commercialization of the MDC systems were summarized. (C) 2020 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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