Journal
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 356, Issue -, Pages 529-538Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2017.01.069
Keywords
Microbial desalination cell; Nitrogen removal; Metal removal; Desalination Energy positive; MDC modeling
Funding
- China Scholarship Council (CSC) Doctorate Program
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Simultaneous removal of nitrogen in municipal wastewater, metal in industrial wastewater and saline in seawater was achieved in an integrated microbial desalination cell-microbial electrolysis cell (MDC-MEC) system. Batch tests showed that more than 95.1% of nitrogen was oxidized by nitrification in the cathode of MDC and reduced by heterotrophic denitrification in the anode of MDC within 48 h, leading to the total nitrogen removal rate of 4.07 mg L-1 h(-1). Combining of nitrogen removal and desalination in MDC effectively solved the problem of pH fluctuation in anode and cathode, and led to 63.7% of desalination. Power generation of MDC (293.7 mW m(-2)) was 2.9 times higher than the one without salt solution. The electric power of MDC was harvested by a capacitor circuit to supply metal reduction in a MEC, and 99.5% of lead (II) was removed within 48 h. A kinetic MDC model was developed to elucidate the correlation of voltage output and desalination efficiency. Ratio of wastewater and sea water was calculated for MDC optimal operation. Energy balance of nutrient removal, metal removal and desalination in the MDC-MEC system was positive (0.0267 kW h m(-3)), demonstrating the promise of utilizing low power output of MDCs. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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