Treatment and electricity harvesting from sulfate/sulfide-containing wastewaters using microbial fuel cell with enriched sulfate-reducing mixed culture

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 243, Issue , 2012, Pages 67-72

  Lee, Duu Jong ^a,b   Lee, Chin Yu ^a   Chang, Jo Shu ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Electricity; Microbial fuel cell; SRB; Sulfate; Sulfide

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC TREATMENTS; ANODE-RESPIRING BACTERIA; ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; ELECTRON DONORS; MIXED CULTURES; MIXOTROPHS; SRB; SULFATE; SULFATE REDUCING; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA; SULFIDE;

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; ELECTRICITY; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS; ORGANIC CARBON; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

SULFATE; SULFIDE;

BIOFILM; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FUEL CELL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MIXOTROPHY; ORGANIC CARBON; PIPELINE; REDUCTION; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SULFATE; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; DEVICES; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; ENERGY YIELD; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; NONHUMAN; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; WASTE WATER;

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LACTIC ACID; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SULFATES; SULFIDES; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84869878438     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: 18733336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2012.09.071     Document Type: Article

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