Semi-pilot scale production of hydrogen from Organic Fraction of Solid Municipal Waste and electricity generation from process effluents

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 60, Issue , 2014, Pages 156-163

  Sekoai, Patrick T ^a   Gueguim Kana, Evariste B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; Electricity generation; Fermentative hydrogen production; Microbial fuel cell (MFC); Organic Fraction of Solid Municipal Waste (OFSMW)

Indexed keywords

BIO-ENERGY; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND REMOVALS; ELECTRICAL POWER DENSITY; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FERMENTATIVE HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; MUNICIPAL WASTE; PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENTS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

BIOENERGY; BIOMASS POWER; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EFFLUENT; ELECTRICAL POWER; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FERMENTATION; FUEL CELL; HYDROGEN; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE;

EID: 84891373297     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2013.11.008     Document Type: Article

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