Journal
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 332, Issue -, Pages 277-285Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2017.09.096
Keywords
Algae biofilm microbial fuel cell; Algal biofilm; Domestic wastewater; Microbial community; Biofuel
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- National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars [51322811]
- Science and Technology Development Planning of Shandong Province [2012GGE27027]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of Ministry of Education of China [NCET-12-0341]
- Foundation for Outstanding Young Scientists in Shandong Province [ZR2016EEB26]
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An algae biofilm microbial fuel cell (ABMFC) was established by integrating an algal biofilm (AB) with a microbial fuel cell (MFC) to facilitate the system's operation for nutrient removal and bioenergy generation. In batch mode, the removal efficiencies of TN, TP and COD in the ABMFC reached 96.0%, 91.5% and 80.2%, respectively, which performed much better than MFC or AB alone. The highest power density of the ABMFC (62.93 mW.m(-2)) was 18% higher than that of the MFC (52.33 mW.m(-2)), and a lipid productivity of 6.26 mg.L-1.d(-1) could be obtained simultaneously. High-throughput sequencing revealed that Chlorobia and Deltaproteobacteria grew well in the symbiotic ABMFC system. Betaproteobacteria, versatile in organic pollutant degradation, was inhibited by algal biofilm; it may be due to the nutrients competitions between algae and Betaproteobacteria. It was proved that the ABMFC system was able to handle real, complex, variable wastewater in the continuous flow trials and a total energy of 0.094 kWh.per m(3) of wastewater was obtained in the process. This study not only developed a wastewater treatment and energy recovery method but also explored a better understanding of the mechanisms for the algae-bacteria system.
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