Microbial fuel cell enables phosphate recovery from digested sewage sludge as struvite

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 5824-5830

  Fischer, Fabian ^a   Bastian, Christèle ^a   Happe, Manuel ^a   Mabillard, Eric ^a   Schmidt, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Digested sewage sludge; Microbial fuel cell; Phosphate; Recycling; Struvite

Indexed keywords

DIGESTED SEWAGE SLUDGE; ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS; HEAT OF COMBUSTION; IRON PHOSPHATES; METABOLIC ACTIVITY; PHOSPHATE EXTRACTION; PHOSPHATE RECOVERY; STRUVITES; SUPERNATANT SOLUTIONS; TOXIC METALS;

CADMIUM; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUEL CELLS; IRON COMPOUNDS; LEAD; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; RECYCLING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEWAGE SLUDGE; THERMOCHEMISTRY;

WASTE INCINERATION;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; FERRIC PHOSPHATE; LEAD; PHOSPHATE; STRUVITE;

BIOFUEL; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COMBUSTION; ELECTRON; FUEL CELL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORTHOPHOSPHATE; RECYCLING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEWAGE; SPECTROSCOPY; STOICHIOMETRY; STRUVITE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; PHOSPHORUS NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SLUDGE; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FERTILIZERS; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOSPHATES; POWDER DIFFRACTION; SEWAGE; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79955021072     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.02.089     Document Type: Article

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