Biocathodic nitrous oxide removal in bioelectrochemical systems

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 10557-10566

  Desloover, Joachim ^a   Puig, Sebastià ^b   Virdis, Bernardino ^c   Clauwaert, Peter ^a   Boeckx, Pascal ^a   Verstraete, Willy ^a   Boon, Nico ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCATHODES; BIOELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT; CATHODE POTENTIAL; CATHODIC COMPARTMENTS; CONVERSION RATES; COULOMBIC EFFICIENCY; CURRENT PRODUCTION; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NITROUS OXIDE; POINT SOURCES; PROOF OF CONCEPT; REMOVAL RATE; STANDARD HYDROGEN ELECTRODES;

CATALYSTS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; HYDROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE;

ANESTHETICS;

NITROUS OXIDE;

AUTOTROPHY; BIODEGRADATION; CATALYST; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; EMISSION CONTROL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GREENHOUSE GAS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROORGANISM; NITROUS OXIDE; OZONE DEPLETION; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REDUCTION;

ARTICLE; BIOELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEM; CATALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRON; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MICROORGANISM; PH ELECTRODE; POLARIZATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ELECTRODES; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NITROUS OXIDE; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

EID: 83455221318     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es202047x     Document Type: Article

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