Evaluation of dairy industry wastewater treatment and simultaneous bioelectricity generation in a catalyst-less and mediator-less membrane microbial fuel cell

Journal of Saudi Chemical Society

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 88-100

  Mansoorian, Hossein Jafari ^a   Mahvi, Amir Hossein ^b   Jafari, Ahmad Jonidi ^c   Khanjani, Narges ^d  

^a ZAHEDAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bioconversion; Bioelectricity; Biofilms; Biotransformations; Membrane microbial fuel cell; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957052086     PISSN: 13196103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jscs.2014.08.002     Document Type: Article

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