A horizontal plug flow and stackable pilot microbial fuel cell for municipal wastewater treatment

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 156, Issue , 2014, Pages 132-138

  Feng, Yujie ^a   He, Weihua ^a   Liu, Jia ^a   Wang, Xin ^a,b   Qu, Youpeng ^a   Ren, Nanqi ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electricity generation; Microbial fuel cell; Sewage wastewater treatment; Stackable horizontal MFC (SHMFC)

Indexed keywords

EFFLUENTS; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

APPLICATION-ORIENTED; DOMESTIC WASTEWATER; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; EXTERNAL RESISTANCE; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; MAXIMUM POWER DENSITY; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT; STACKABLE HORIZONTAL MFC (SHMFC);

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ADVECTION; EFFLUENT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FUEL CELL; LIMITING FACTOR; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ADVECTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONDUCTANCE; ENERGY COST; ENERGY RECOVERY; INOCULATION; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; PH; PLUG FLOW REACTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT; STACKABLE HORIZONTAL MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOENERGY; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CITY; COST; DEVICES; ECONOMICS; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODE; MICROBIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

SEWAGE; WASTE WATER;

BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND ANALYSIS; CHINA; CITIES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODES; PILOT PROJECTS; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84893369804     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2013.12.104     Document Type: Article

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