Simultaneous domestic wastewater treatment and renewable energy production using microbial fuel cells (MFCs)

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 904-909

  Puig, S ^a   Serra, M ^a   Coma, M ^a   Balaguer, M D ^a   Colprim, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Domestic wastewater; Microbial fuel cell; Nitrogen; Organic matter; Renewable energy

Indexed keywords

ANODIC COMPARTMENT; DIFFERENT PROCESS; DOMESTIC WASTE WATER TREATMENT; DOMESTIC WASTEWATER; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; IN-LINE; LOW LEVEL; NITROGEN LOSS; NITROGEN TRANSFORMATIONS; ORGANIC LOAD RATES; ORGANIC MATTER REMOVAL; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; RENEWABLE ENERGIES;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CATHODES; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); FUEL CELLS; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS; NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; AMMONIUM; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DOMESTIC WASTE; ELECTRODE; FUEL CELL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; OXIDATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POWER GENERATION; REACTION KINETICS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; TRANSFORMATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTRODE; ENERGY YIELD; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; RENEWABLE ENERGY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; NITROGEN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 80052045746     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2011.401     Document Type: Article

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