Nutrient and organics removal from swine slurry with simultaneous electricity generation in an alum sludge-based constructed wetland incorporating microbial fuel cell technology

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 266, Issue , 2015, Pages 74-81

  Doherty, Liam ^a   Zhao, Yaqian ^a,b   Zhao, Xiaohong ^b   Wang, Wenke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Constructed wetland; Electricity; Microbial fuel cell; Nutrient removal; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRICITY; FLOW PATTERNS; FUEL CELLS; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS;

COD REMOVAL EFFICIENCY; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGIES; MAXIMUM POWER DENSITY; NUTRIENT REMOVAL; OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES; PHOSPHOROUS REMOVAL;

MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS;

SUIDAE;

EID: 84920736156     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2014.12.063     Document Type: Article

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