Electricity generation from artificial wastewater using an upflow microbial fuel cell

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 5262-5267

  He, Zhen ^a   Minteer, Shelley D ^b   Angenent, Largus T ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b Saint Louis University School of Science and Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; ELECTRIC LOADS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; FUEL CELLS; MICROBIOLOGY; SOLUTIONS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD); POWER DENSITY; SUBSTRATE DIFFUSION; UPFLOW MICROBIAL FUEL CELL (UMFC); VOLTAMMETRY;

ELECTRICITY;

SUCROSE;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; UASB REACTOR; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; DIFFUSION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MICROORGANISM; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA; BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; ELECTRICITY; METHANE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 22344440626     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0502876     Document Type: Article

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