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FUEL
Volume 331, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2022.125632
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Bioelectrochemical treatment; Hydrocarbon waste degradation; Bioenergy generation; Value-addition; Hazardous waste bioremediation
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Petroleum industries generate large amounts of wastewater containing high concentrations of recalcitrant pollutants. Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) have been widely used to treat these wastewaters while simultaneously generating bioelectricity and value-added chemicals. This review discusses the applications of BESs in the treatment of petroleum wastewater and compares them with other biological processes.
Petroleum industries are large water consumers and generate a lot of wastewater at various stages of industrial operations. Wastewater from the petroleum industries contain recalcitrant pollutants such as hydrocarbons that are present in high concentrations, dissolved solids and sulfur compounds that can pose potential environmental threat. Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) are known to be sustainable processes to treat the various kinds of wastewaters such as petroleum wastewater, while simultaneously generating the bioelectricity and value-added chemicals. This review focuses on various applications of BESs such as microbial fuel cells (MFC), microbial electrolysis cells (MEC), and microbial desalination cells (MDC) using diverse types of wastewaters (petroleum sludge, produced water, formation water, and petroleum refinery wastewater) from the petroleum industries. Overall, a hybrid type BES with hydrocarbon wastewater achieved a 98% of columbic efficiency, 96.5% of chemical oxygen demand (COD), 99% of phenanthrene, 94% of pyrene and 80% of TDS removal which are superior to single and dual chamber BES performances. The review also compares the existing biological pro-cesses with BESs in terms of the treatment of hydrocarbons and process sustainability. Treatment efficiency of petroleum wastes via the BES can be further improved by integrating the biological and electrochemical pro-cesses to develop a sustainable approach to bio-refinery route.
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