High Acetic Acid Production Rate Obtained by Microbial Electrosynthesis from Carbon Dioxide

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 13566-13574

  Jourdin, Ludovic ^a,c   Grieger, Timothy ^a   Monetti, Juliette ^a   Flexer, Victoria ^a,d   Freguia, Stefano ^a   Lu, Yang ^a   Chen, Jun ^b   Romano, Mark ^b   Wallace, Gordon G ^b   Keller, Jurg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; CARBON NANOTUBES; DEPOSITION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHORESIS; ELECTROPHORETIC COATINGS; FERMENTATION; GLASSY CARBON; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); ORGANIC ACIDS; PH; YARN;

ACETIC ACID PRODUCTIONS; ELECTROPHORETIC DEPOSITION TECHNIQUES; ENRICHED MICROBIAL CULTURES; HIERARCHICAL POROUS STRUCTURES; INDUSTRIAL FERMENTATION; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTIONS; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; RETICULATED VITREOUS CARBON;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ACETIC ACID; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; CARBON NANOTUBE;

ACETIC ACID; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; CARBON DIOXIDE; ELECTRODE; FERMENTATION; INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CARBON SOURCE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FERMENTATION; NONHUMAN; SYNTHESIS; BIOFILM; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON; ELECTROPHORESIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ACETIC ACID; BIOFILMS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONS; ELECTROPHORESIS; FERMENTATION; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; NANOTUBES, CARBON;

EID: 84947251258     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03821     Document Type: Article

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