Enhanced production of short-chain fatty acid by co-fermentation of waste activated sludge and kitchen waste under alkaline conditions and its application to microbial fuel cells

Applied Energy

Volumn 102, Issue , 2013, Pages 1197-1204

  Chen, Yinguang ^a   Luo, Jingyang ^a   Yan, Yuanyuan ^a,b   Feng, Leiyu ^a,b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Research and Service Center for Environmental Industry   (China)

Author keywords

Alkaline pH; Kitchen waste; Microbial fuel cells (MFCs); Short chain fatty acid (SCFA); Waste activated sludge (WAS)

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATES; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; FERMENTATION; KITCHENS; METHANE; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS; MICROORGANISMS;

ALKALINE CONDITIONS; ALKALINE PH; ANAEROBIC MICROORGANISMS; ARCHAEA; C/N RATIO; COFERMENTATION; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FERMENTATION SYSTEMS; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; KITCHEN WASTE; METHANE PRODUCTION; OPTIMUM CONDITIONS; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY; SHORT-CHAIN FATTY ACIDS; SOLID RETENTION TIME; WASTE ACTIVATED SLUDGES;

ALKALINITY;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIOFUEL; CARBOHYDRATE; DOMESTIC WASTE; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FATTY ACID; FERMENTATION; FUEL CELL; PH; ALKALINITY; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; CARBON; GAS PRODUCTION; METHANE; NITROGEN; VISCOSITY; WASTE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84870734667     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2012.06.056     Document Type: Article

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