Long-term performance of liter-scale microbial fuel cells treating primary effluent installed in a municipal wastewater treatment facility

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4941-4948

  Zhang, Fei ^a   Ge, Zheng ^a   Grimaud, Julien ^b   Hurst, Jim ^b   He, Zhen ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

^b Veolia Eau Compagnie Generale des Eaux   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON DISTRIBUTIONS; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; LONG TERM PERFORMANCE; LOW ENERGY CONSUMPTION; LOW SLUDGE PRODUCTION; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS (MFCS); MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENTS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; METHANE; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ORGANIC MATTER; SCAVENGER; SULFATE;

CARBON BALANCE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENT; FUEL CELL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENT; EFFLUENT STANDARD; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY YIELD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT; REDUCTION; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER SUPPLY;

BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND ANALYSIS; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84877611399     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es400631r     Document Type: Article

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