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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Microbial electrolysis cell"”.
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Improving the Hydrogen Yield of Microbial Electrolysis Cell with Facilitated Electron Transfer Using Mediators, Choice of Environmental Conditions and Anode Treatment with Conductive Materials
… These VFA products can be used as feedstock for microbial fuel cells (MFC), to recover more energy as electricity, or microbial electrolysis cells (MEC), to recover more hydrogen. The effect of pH and temperature on hydrogen production rate in MECs from acetate using continuous flow MEC was …
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A model-based approach for the development of a bioelectrochemical sensor for biochemical oxygen demand in wastewater
Bioelectrochemical systems such as microbial fuel cells and microbial electrolysis cells are currently being researched for many different environmental engineering applications. Some of these applications include wastewater treatment coupled with electricity generation, wastewater treatment …
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Experimental investigation of integrated systems for biohydrogen and biomethane production
… of a single-chamber cylindrical membraneless the microbial electrolysis cell (MEC), while the second system is an MEC-anaerobic digestion system. The system 1 investigates the effects of various parameters on the bioH₂ production, whereas the system 2 examines simultaneous production of the bioH2 …
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Resource Recovery By Osmotic Bioelectrochemical Systems Towards Sustainable Wastewater Treatment
… be accomplished in either an internal (osmotic microbial fuel cells, OsMFC) or external (microbial electrolysis cell-forward osmosis system, MEC-FO) configuration. In OsMFC, higher current generation than regular microbial fuel cell (MFC) was observed, resulting from the lower resistance of FO …
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Development of Integrated Photobioelectrochemical System (IPB): Processes, Modeling and Applications
… system (IPB) is a powerful system to combine microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and algal bioreactor together. This system has good performance on the organic degradation, removal of nitrogen and phosphorus, and recover the bioenergy via electricity generation and algal harvesting. This dissertation …
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Integration of anaerobic digestion with bio-electrochemical technologies in cascading circular bioeconomy systems producing biofuel and chemicals
… from feedstocks with high portions of lignin and cellulose), and inefficient biogas upgrading to biomethane. In an endeavour to simultaneously increase biogas production and upgrading, the potential for integrating anaerobic digestion with three emerging bio-electrochemical technologies in a …
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Advancing Forward Osmosis for Energy-efficient Wastewater Treatment towards Enhanced Water Reuse and Resource Recovery
… investigated via operational strategy (i.e., an electrolysis-assisted FO) and membrane modification (i.e., surface coating of zwitterion-functionalized carbon nanotubes). Significantly reduced RSF (> 50% reduction) was obtained in both approaches with minor energy/material investment. With two …
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Feasibility of using Waste Heat as a power source to operate Microbial Electrolysis Cells towards Resource Recovery
… such as nitrogen and phosphorus compounds. Microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) is a type of BES that, in the presence of an additional voltage, can treat wastewater and generate hydrogen gas. This is a promising approach for wastewater treatment and value-added product generation, though it …
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Engineering outer-membrane electron transfer proteins for modular biotic-abiotic interfacing with living cells
… be harnessed for energy generation, biosensing, microbial electrosynthesis and cell signalling. Within this complex, the decaheme cytochromes MtrC and MtrA are arranged on the extracellular and periplasmic sides of the outer-membrane β-barrel protein MtrB, respectively, enabling electron transfer …