Treatment of domestic and distillery wastewater in high surface microbial fuel cells

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 39, Issue 36, 2014, Pages 21819-21827

  Sonawane, Jayesh M ^a   Marsili, Enrico ^b,c,d   Chandra Ghosh, Prakash ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^c DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Distillery wastewater; Domestic wastewater; Interlaced carbon yarn anode; Microbial fuel cell

Indexed keywords

ANODES; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; FUEL CELLS; ORGANIC CARBON; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND REMOVALS; DISTILLERY WASTEWATERS; DOMESTIC WASTEWATER; ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; FULL-SCALE APPLICATIONS; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS (MFCS); ORGANIC CARBON REMOVALS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS;

EID: 84905556790     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.07.085     Document Type: Article

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