Ammonium as a sustainable proton shuttle in bioelectrochemical systems

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 9691-9696

  Cord Ruwisch, Ralf ^a   Law, Yingyu ^a   Cheng, Ka Yu ^a,b  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cation exchange membrane; Microbial fuel cell; Optimization; PH split; Proton gradient

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE; AMMONIUM IONS; ANOLYTES; BIOELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS; CATION EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; CURRENT GENERATION; IONIC FLUXES; PH CONTROL; PROTON GRADIENT; PROTON SHUTTLE;

FUEL CELLS; PROTONS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE; PROTON;

AMMONIUM; BIOMASS POWER; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTRODE; ELECTROLYTE; FUEL CELL; ION EXCHANGE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OPTIMIZATION; PH; VOLATILIZATION;

ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; CATION EXCHANGE; CATION TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ION CURRENT; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLATILIZATION;

AMMONIA; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PROTONS;

EID: 80052736175     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.07.100     Document Type: Article

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