期刊
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
卷 218, 期 -, 页码 19-23出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2012.12.018
关键词
High-quality effluent; Ultrafiltration microbial fuel cell (UF-MFC); Flow-through type; Non-CEM based; Membrane bioreactor (MBR)
资金
- Plant Technology Advancement Program [07SeaHeroA01-01]
- Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs, Korea
A new flow-through type microbial fuel cell (MFC) system was developed for practical application as a wastewater treatment process. The ultrafiltration MFC (UF-MFC), which has a UF membrane instead of an expensive cation exchange membrane (CEM) as a separator, was designed to continuously filter the anode chamber solution to cathode chamber via UF membrane. Through the UF-MFC system, high-quality effluent and electricity generation can be simultaneously achieved by the two different wastewater treatment processes applied, e.g., a biological organic pollutant removal in the anode chamber by electrochemically active bacteria and a physical filtration by UF membrane. The maximum power density of the UF-MFC was 53.5 mW/m(2), lower than the power density shown by comparison with a Nafion based two-chambered MFC (55.7 mW/m(2)). However, the UF-MFC continuously produced high-quality effluent that did not need further post-treatment processes, showing a high and stable COD removal efficiency (>90%), and high rejection rate for total coliform (>97%) and suspended solids during 20 d operation. This study confirmed that UF-MFC s could be a promising technology for both of efficient wastewater treatment and energy recovery from wastewater in future wastewater treatment plants. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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