Microbial Fuel Cells and Wastewater Treatment (original) (raw)

Elsevier eBooks, 2018

Abstract

Abstract The growing demand for sustainable energy associated with the need for alternative wastewater treatment has led to the development of several efficient and sustainable systems for energy conversion. The microbial fuel cell and the microbial electrolysis cell have gained scientific and technological importance in recent years because they fit quite well in the current global scenario. The main advantage of microbial fuel cells is their ability to treat an effluent and to generate electric power simultaneously. The main goal of microbial electrolysis cells is to produce hydrogen sustainably through consumption of a residue. In this chapter, we address the fundamentals of biological fermentation and wastewater treatment as well as the use of microbial fuel cells and microbial electrolysis cells to treat wastewater and to cogenerate electricity and hydrogen.

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