Electricity generation from fermented primary sludge using single-chamber air-cathode microbial fuel cells

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 128, Issue , 2013, Pages 784-787

  Yang, Fei ^a   Ren, Lijiao ^b   Pu, Yuepu ^a   Logan, Bruce E ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

Author keywords

Electricity; Fermentation; Microbial fuel cell; Power density; Primary sludge

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRICITY; FERMENTATION; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

COULOMBIC EFFICIENCY; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; GENERATE ELECTRICITY; MAXIMUM POWER DENSITY; PHOSPHATE BUFFERS; POWER DENSITIES; PRIMARY EFFLUENT; PRIMARY SLUDGE; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS; VOLATILE SUSPENDED SOLIDS;

MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS;

PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; VOLATILE AGENT; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; BUFFERING; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENT; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRODE; FATTY ACID; FERMENTATION; FUEL CELL; PH; PHOSPHATE; SLUDGE;

ARTICLE; CATHODE RAY TUBE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; EFFLUENT; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICITY; FERMENTATION; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLUDGE; SUPERNATANT; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84873198467     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2012.10.021     Document Type: Article

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