Energy recovery and carbon/nitrogen removal from sewage and contaminated groundwater in a coupled hydrolytic-acidogenic sequencing batch reactor and denitrifying biocathode microbial fuel cell
| Autor: | Mahad Baawain, Sadik Rahman, Mahbuboor Rahman Choudhury, Meisam Tabatabaei, Abdullah Al-Mamun, Su Shiung Lam, Tahereh Jafary |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Acidogenesis
Microbial fuel cell Bioelectric Energy Sources Nitrogen chemistry.chemical_element Sewage Sequencing batch reactor 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Biochemistry Waste Disposal Fluid 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound Denitrifying bacteria 0302 clinical medicine Bioreactors Nitrate Electricity 030212 general & internal medicine Groundwater 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science business.industry Pulp and paper industry Carbon chemistry Denitrification business |
| Zdroj: | Environmental research. 183 |
| ISSN: | 1096-0953 |
| Popis: | Developing cost-effective technology for treatment of sewage and nitrogen-containing groundwater is one of the crucial challenges of global water industries. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) oxidize organics from sewage by exoelectrogens on anode to produce electricity while denitrifiers on cathode utilize the generated electricity to reduce nitrogen from contaminated groundwater. As the exoelectrogens are incapable of oxidizing insoluble, polymeric, and complex organics, a novel integration of an anaerobic sequencing batch reactor (ASBR) prior to the MFC simultaneously achieve hydrolytic-acidogenic conversion of complex organics, boost power recovery, and remove Carbon/Nitrogen (C/N) from the sewage and groundwater. The results obtained revealed increases in the fractions of soluble organics and volatile fatty acids in pretreated sewage by 52 ± 19% and 120 ± 40%, respectively. The optimum power and current generation with the pretreated sewage were 7.1 W m−3 and 45.88 A m−3, respectively, corresponding to 8% and 10% improvements compared to untreated sewage. Moreover, the integration of the ASBR with the biocathode MFC led to 217% higher carbon and 136% higher nitrogen removal efficiencies compared to the similar system without ASBR. The outcomes of the present study represent the promising prospects of using ASBR pretreatment and successive utilization of solubilized organics in denitrifying biocathode MFCs for simultaneous energy recovery and C/N removal from both sewage and nitrate nitrogen-contaminated groundwater. |
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