Energy and performance comparison of microbial fuel cell and conventional aeration treating of wastewater

Journal of Microbial and Biochemical Technology

Volumn 5, Issue SPECIALISSUE.2, 2013, Pages

  Huggins, Tyler ^a   Fallgren, Paul H ^a,b   Jin, Song ^b   Ren, Zhiyong Jason ^a  

^a The University of Colorado Denver   (United States)

^b Advanced Environmental Technologies LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissolved oxygen; Microbial fuel cell; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887995695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19485948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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