Water softening using microbial desalination cell technology

Desalination

Volumn 309, Issue , 2013, Pages 32-37

  Brastad, Kristen S ^a,b   He, Zhen ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

^b A O SMITH CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; Hard water; Heavy metal; Microbial desalination cell; Water softening

Indexed keywords

BATCH OPERATION; BIO-ENERGY; ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; ELECTRON MOVEMENT; HARD WATER; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MICROBIAL DESALINATION CELLS; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; ORGANICS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SYNTHETIC SOLUTIONS; VOLUMETRIC RATIO; WATER SAMPLES; WATER SOFTENING;

ARSENIC; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CATHODES; DESALINATION; HARDNESS; HEAVY METALS; MERCURY (METAL); WATER HARDNESS;

WATER FILTRATION;

BIOENERGY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DESALINATION; HEAVY METAL; LABORATORY METHOD; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SOFTENING; WASTEWATER; WATER TECHNOLOGY; ARSENIC; COPPER; ELECTRICITY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NICKEL;

EID: 84870916681     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2012.09.015     Document Type: Article

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