Palm oil mill effluent treatment using a two-stage microbial fuel cells system integrated with immobilized biological aerated filters

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 101, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2729-2734

  Cheng, Jia ^a   Zhu, Xiuping ^a   Ni, Jinren ^a   Borthwick, Alistair ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electricity generation; Immobilized biological aerated filter; Microbial fuel cell; Palm oil mill effluent; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL AERATED FILTER; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; IMMOBILIZED BIOLOGICAL AERATED FILTER; PALM OIL MILL EFFLUENT; PALM OIL MILL EFFLUENTS;

BIOFILTERS; BIOFILTRATION; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; FUEL CELLS; INTEGRATED CONTROL; INTEGRATED OPTICS; METAL RECOVERY; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; VEGETABLE OILS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

AMMONIA; NITROGEN; PALM OIL;

AMMONIA; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FILTER; FUEL CELL; MEMBRANE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SLUDGE; WASTE TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOFILTER; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EFFLUENT; ELECTROLYSIS; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; OIL INDUSTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPFLOW REACTOR; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; BIOREACTORS; FILTRATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PLANT OILS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 73749088450     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2009.12.017     Document Type: Article

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