Using olive mill wastewater to improve performance in producing electricity from domestic wastewater by using single-chamber microbial fuel cell
Articolo
Data di Pubblicazione:
2013
Citazione:
Using olive mill wastewater to improve performance in producing electricity from domestic wastewater by using single-chamber microbial fuel cell / T.P. Sciarria, A. Tenca, A. D'Epifanio, B. Mecheri, G. Merlino, M. Barbato, S. Borin, S. Licoccia, V. Garavaglia, F. Adani. - In: BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY. - ISSN 0960-8524. - 147(2013 Nov), pp. 246-253.
Abstract:
Improving electricity generation from wastewater (DW) by using olive mill wastewater (OMW) was evaluated using single-chamber microbial fuel cells (MFC). Doing so single-chambers air cathode MFCs with platinum anode were fed with domestic wastewater (DW) alone and mixed with OMW at the ratio of 14:1 (w/w). MFCs fed with DW+OMW gave 0.38V at 1kΩ, while power density from polarization curve was of 124.6mW m(-2). The process allowed a total reduction of TCOD and BOD5 of 60% and 69%, respectively, recovering the 29% of the coulombic efficiency. The maximum voltage obtained from MFC fed with DW+OMW was 2.9 times higher than that of cell fed with DW. DNA-fingerprinting showed high bacterial diversity for both experiments and the presence on anodes of exoelectrogenic bacteria, such as Geobacter spp. Electrodes selected peculiar consortia and, in particular, anodes of both experiments showed a similar specialization of microbial communities independently by feeding used.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Biomass treatment ; Domestic wastewater ; Electricity generation ; Microbial fuel cell ; Olive mill wastewater
Elenco autori:
T.P. Sciarria, A. Tenca, A. D'Epifanio, B. Mecheri, G. Merlino, M. Barbato, S. Borin, S. Licoccia, V. Garavaglia, F. Adani
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