Continuous electricity generation from domestic wastewater and organic substrates in a flat plate microbial fuel cell

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 5809-5814

  Min, Booki ^a   Logan, Bruce E ^a,b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; BIOCATALYSTS; CATHODES; ELECTRODES; MICROORGANISMS; POWER GENERATION; SOLUTIONS; WASTEWATER;

ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC SUBSTRATES; POWER DENSITY;

ELECTRICITY;

ACETIC ACID; BUTYRIC ACID; DEXTRAN; GLUCOSE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PROTON; STARCH; WATER;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FUEL CELL; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REACTOR; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; DENSITY; DOMESTIC WASTE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODE; FLOW; LIQUID; MEMBRANE; REACTOR; WASTE WATER;

BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; DEXTRANS; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXYGEN; SEWAGE; STARCH; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 7444235902     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0491026     Document Type: Article

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