Towards energy neutral wastewater treatment: methodology and state of the art

H Gao, YD Scherson, GF Wells - Environmental science: Processes & …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Conventional biological wastewater treatment processes are energy-intensive endeavors
that yield little or no recovered resources and often require significant external chemical …

A review of a recently emerged technology: constructed wetland–microbial fuel cells

L Doherty, Y Zhao, X Zhao, Y Hu, X Hao, L Xu, R Liu - Water research, 2015 - Elsevier
Constructed wetlands (CWs) and microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are compatible technologies
since both are reliant on the actions of bacteria to remove contaminants from wastewater …

Assessment of microbial fuel cell configurations and power densities

BE Logan, MJ Wallack, KY Kim, W He… - … & Technology Letters, 2015 - ACS Publications
Different microbial electrochemical technologies are being developed for many diverse
applications, including wastewater treatment, biofuel production, water desalination, remote …

A two-stage microbial fuel cell and anaerobic fluidized bed membrane bioreactor (MFC-AFMBR) system for effective domestic wastewater treatment

L Ren, Y Ahn, BE Logan - Environmental science & technology, 2014 - ACS Publications
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are a promising technology for energy-efficient domestic
wastewater treatment, but the effluent quality has typically not been sufficient for discharge …

COD removal characteristics in air-cathode microbial fuel cells

X Zhang, W He, L Ren, J Stager, PJ Evans… - Bioresource …, 2015 - Elsevier
Exoelectrogenic microorganisms in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) compete with other
microorganisms for substrate. In order to understand how this affects removal rates, current …

Recent advances in constructed wetland‐microbial fuel cells for simultaneous bioelectricity production and wastewater treatment: a review

O Guadarrama‐Pérez… - … Journal of Energy …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The coupling of constructed wetlands (CWs) to microbial fuel cells (MFCs) has turned out to
be a source of renewable energy for the production of bioelectricity and for the simultaneous …

Complete nitrogen removal by simultaneous nitrification and denitrification in flat-panel air-cathode microbial fuel cells treating domestic wastewater

Y Park, S Park, J Yu, CI Torres, BE Rittmann… - Chemical Engineering …, 2017 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) can treat organic compounds from domestic wastewater without
aeration, but an additional procedure is required to remove nitrogen. This study developed a …

Microalgae fuel cell for wastewater treatment: Recent advances and challenges

KK Jaiswal, V Kumar, MS Vlaskin, N Sharma… - Journal of Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
Electricity generation from wastewater using a microalgae-based microbial fuel cell (MFC)
has captured a lot of attention from researchers these days. Microalgae-microbial fuel cell (m …

Continuous treatment of high strength wastewaters using air-cathode microbial fuel cells

KY Kim, W Yang, PJ Evans, BE Logan - Bioresource technology, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Treatment of low strength wastewaters using microbial fuel cells (MFCs) has been
effective at hydraulic retention times (HRTs) similar to aerobic processes, but treatment of …

Reactor concepts for bioelectrochemical syntheses and energy conversion

T Krieg, A Sydow, U Schröder, J Schrader… - Trends in …, 2014 - cell.com
In bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) at least one electrode reaction is catalyzed by
microorganisms or isolated enzymes. One of the existing challenges for BESs is shifting the …