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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"bioelectrochemical system"”.
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Resource Recovery By Osmotic Bioelectrochemical Systems Towards Sustainable Wastewater Treatment
… An innovative treatment concept - osmotic bioelectrochemical system (OsBES), which is based on cooperation between bioelectrochemical systems (BES) and forward osmosis (FO), has been introduced and studied in the past few years. An OsBES can accomplish simultaneous treatment of wastewater …
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Decontamination and Valorisation of a Corn-to-Ethanol Biofuel Waste Stream
… comprising oils, fibres and polar compounds. Bioelectrochemical system (BES) treatment, an emerging wastewater treatment technology, was evaluated as a biological remediation strategy for TWS. Although microbial conversion of glycerol, lactic acid and potentially long-chain hydrocarbons were …
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Performance analysis of bioanode materials and the study of the metabolic activity of Rhodopseudomonas palustris in photo-bioelectrochemical systems
A sustainable and low-cost system, namely a photo-bioelectrochemical system (photo-BES), based on the natural blueprint of photosynthetic microorganisms was studied. The aim of this research work is to improve the efficiency of electron transfer of the microorganisms for bioelectricity generation. …
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Feasibility of using Waste Heat as a power source to operate Microbial Electrolysis Cells towards Resource Recovery
… treatment is a very energy-intensive process. Bioelectrochemical system (BES) is an emerging technology that can treat wastewater and also recover resources such as energy in the form of electricity/hydrogen gas and nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus compounds. Microbial electrolysis …
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Strategies for enhancing bioelectrochemical remediation of petroleum hydrocarbons
… alternatives to other remediation methods. Bioelectrochemical System (BES), an emerging biotechnology approach with a wide range of applications, has been adjudged as one of the cost-effective and environmentally friendly methods that has the potential to enhance faster degradation of …
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Systems Approaches to Enhance Performance and Applicability of Microbial Fuel Cells
… be the microbial fuel cell (MFC), a subset of bioelectrochemical system (BES) which generates electricity in the process of electrogenic (generating electrons) degradation of soluble organic contaminants present in the water (or wastewater) by electrogens (electron producing bacteria) at the …
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Electrochemical wiring of cyanobacteria to anodes using polymers towards biohybrid devices for solar-chemical production
… to achieve maximal output. In this work, we systematically tested two common polymers — the conjugated polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) and an osmium-based redox polymer — in terms of their ability to act as wiring tools for the model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 …
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Development of Integrated Photobioelectrochemical System (IPB): Processes, Modeling and Applications
… treatment, required to design an innovative system to reduce the energy consumption to solve the energy crisis. Integrated photobioelectrochemical system (IPB) is a powerful system to combine microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and algal bioreactor together. This system has good performance on the …
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Exploring Bioelectrochemical Systems for Removal and Recovery of Hexavalent Chromium or Nutrients
Bioelectrochemical systems (BES) is a platform technology that is able to realize versatile engineering functions and recover valuable resources in an energy-efficient manner. One of the potential applications of BES is to remove and recover nutrients simultaneously from nutrient-rich wastewater, …
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Coupling Treatment Technologies with Bioelectrochemical Systems to Optimize Resource Recovery from Wastewater
… rather than the recovery of resources. Bioelectrochemical systems (BES) have the ability to recover resources from wastewater. These engineered systems take advantage of microbial oxidation of organics to generate electricity. Incorporation of ion exchange membranes can also promote the …
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Optimizing electrogenic activity from photosynthetic bacteria in bioelectrochemical systems
… affecting the electrical performance of bioelectrochemical systems (BES) and their use as analytical tools. The model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 was used to characterize light-driven BESs, or biophotovoltaic (BPV) devices. The phycobilisome (PBS) antenna size was altered to …