Electricity generation from petrochemical wastewater using a membrane-less single chamber microbial fuel cell

Author

Marashi, Seyed Kamran Foad ; Kariminia, Hamid-Reza

Author_Institution

Dept. of Chem. & Pet. Eng., Sharif Univ. of Technol., Tehran, Iran

fYear

2012

fDate

6-8 March 2012

Firstpage

23

Lastpage

27

Abstract

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) represent a new method for simultaneous wastewater treatment and biological electricity generation. In this study, petrochemical wastewater with 8000 mg/l of chemical oxygen demand was examined in a membrane-less single chamber MFC. Effects of wastewater concentration as substrate for microbial oxidation, and anode material (stainless steel or carbon brush) were investigated as designing parameters.

Keywords

anodes; electrochemical electrodes; fuel cell power plants; industrial waste; microbial fuel cells; wastewater treatment; MFC; anode material; biological electricity generation; carbon brush; chemical oxygen demand; electricity generation; membraneless single-chamber microbial fuel cell; microbial oxidation; petrochemical wastewater; stainless steel; wastewater concentration; wastewater treatment; Anodes; Brushes; Electricity; Fuel cells; Immune system; Substrates; Wastewater; Microbial fuel cell; bioelectricity generation; petrochemical wastewater; stainless steel anode;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Renewable Energy and Distributed Generation (ICREDG), 2012 Second Iranian Conference on

Conference_Location

Tehran

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0663-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-0664-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICREDG.2012.6190462

Filename

6190462