Effects of electrolyte total dissolved solids (TDS) on performance and anodic microbes of microbial fuel cells

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 74, 2011, Pages 16909-16914

  Zhang, Libin ^a   Ding, Lili ^a   Li, Chao ^a   Xu, Ke ^a   Ren, Hongqiang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anodic microbe; Microbial fuel cell; Total dissolved solids (TDS)

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE; RNA 16S;

ALCALIGENES; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COULOMETRY; DNA EXTRACTION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GENERATOR; GORDONIA; INOCULATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SALINITY; TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLID;

EID: 82155177327     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5897/AJB11.1993     Document Type: Article

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