Can a microbial fuel cell resist the oxidation of Tomato pomace?

Fogg, Alex; Gadhamshetty, Venkataramana; Franco, Daniel; Wilder, Joseph; Agapi, Steven; Komisar, Simeon J.

doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2015.01.031

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“…The test and control MFCs were based on the two-compartment MFCs described in our earlier studies ( Figure S4a, S4b) (Fogg et al, 2015;Shrestha et al, 2016 replenishing the anode with 180 mL of fresh media ( Figure S5). The spent anolyte of WW MFC from the cycles 6 to 17 was stored at 4 O C and was subsequently used as the UF feed.…”

Section: Mfc Modulementioning

confidence: 99%

“….904 g L -1 ; Na 2 HPO 4 .7H 2 O, 9.152 g L -1 ; vitamin mix, 10 ml L -1 ; and trace minerals). The anode was inoculated with an enriched microbial consortia (biofilm age = 360 days) from active MFCs in our laboratory (Fogg et al, 2015). The catholyte was 50 mM ferricyanide buffered with 50 mM phosphate buffer solution (PBS).…”

Section: Mfc Modulementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The catholyte was 50 mM ferricyanide buffered with 50 mM phosphate buffer solution (PBS). Graphite felt, used as both the cathode and the anode, was pretreated with acetone for 12 hours, soaked in a mixture of ammonium peryoxyldisulfate and concentrated sulphuric acid for 15 minutes, and heated at 450 ⁰C for 30 minutes (Fogg et al, 2015).…”

Section: Mfc Modulementioning

confidence: 99%

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Integrated membrane and microbial fuel cell technologies for enabling energy-efficient effluent Re-use in power plants

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Municipal wastewater is an attractive alternative to freshwater sources to meet the cooling water needs of thermal power plants. Here we offer an energy-efficient integrated microbial fuel cell (MFC)/ultrafiltration (UF) process to purify primary clarifier effluent from a municipal wastewater treatment plant for use as cooling water. The microbial fuel cell was shown to significantly reduce chemical oxygen demand (COD) in the primary settled wastewater effluent upstream of the UF module, while eliminating the energy demand required to deliver dissolved oxygen in conventional aerobic treatment. We investigated surface modification of the UF membranes to control fouling. Two promising hydrophilic monomers were identified in a high-throughput search: zwitterion (2-(Methacryloyloxy)-ethyl-dimethyl-(3-sulfopropyl ammoniumhydroxide, abbreviated BET SO), and amine (2-(Methacryloyloxy) ethyl trimethylammonium chloride, abbreviated N(CH)). Monomers were grafted using UV-induced polymerization on commercial poly (ether sulfone) membranes. Filtration of MFC effluent by membranes modified with BET SO and N(CH) exhibited a lower rate of resistance increase and lower energy consumption than the commercially available membrane. The MFC/UF process produced high quality cooling water that meets the Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI) recommendations for COD, a suite of metals (Fe, Al, Cu, Zn, Si, Mn, S, Ca and Mg), and offered extremely low corrosion rates (<0.05 mm/yr). A series of AC and DC diagnostic tests were used to evaluate the MFC performance.

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“…The tomato pomace has been used recently in MFC with Pdm of 132mW m -2 obtained. The low efficiency of tomato pomace MFC compared to glucose (Pd of 169mW m -2 ) can be due to the slow kinetics of hydrolyzing, such as limited availability of COD in the electrolyte and its particle characteristics [129].…”

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Comprehensive Review on the Use of Food Industry Wastewater as Substrates in Microbial Fuel Cells

Kanani

2021

IJESNR

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Today, the world is facing climate change challenges with environmental protection being a top priority. Optimizing energy consumption due to its high cost and environment protection is a basic human demand. For industries, reduction in production costs is determinative to success. In this regard, Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a unique promising technology with wastewater treatment and bioelectricity generation. The MFCs will help reduce energy consumption, curb the wastewater pollution, and standardize it for releasing into the environment. The food industry by producing high volumes of biomass with high organic pollution load are highly prone to use in MFCs as a substrate. Various food industry effluents have been tested, in real or synthetic form in the MFCs. Due to the improvements in the process and progress in novel configurations, better results have been increasingly obtained. Now, the MFC can be used in the industries individually or by integration with other technologies. In this review, the latest results from the use of food industry wastewater in MFCs along with effective process conditions are evaluated.

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“…Pant et al [23] presented potential substrates used in MFCs as divided basically into acetate, glucose, lignocellulose biomass, synthetic wastewater, brewery wastewater, starch-processing wastewater, dye wastewater, landfill leachates, cellulose and chitin, and nonorganic compounds. However, new opportunities are still being considered and mixtures of compounds contained in domestic sewage [24], agricultural wastewater [25,26], and petroleum wastewater [27] have been tested.…”

Section: Biofilm Application In Energy Productionmentioning

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Biofilm-based membrane reactors – selected aspects of the application and microbial layer control

Janczewski

Trusek-Hołownia

2016

Desalination and Water Treatment

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The membrane, a selective barrier, could serve also as a carrier for biofilm (a microorganism layer) immobilization. Then, it forms the so-called catalytic (active) membrane. The aim is to maintain a layer of controlled thickness and activity. The use of membrane as a biomass carrier is justified when the membrane performs an additional function. Such applications are discussed in the paper. Particular attention is given to the reactors in which microorganisms are immobilized on the membrane surface and the membrane simultaneously serves to provide substrate transport from a liquid and/or gas. The most interesting case is membrane oxygenation. The resulting different zones of aeration of biofilm allow simultaneous aerobic and anaerobic processes to occur in a single reactor. This integration can be applied in the treatment of any kind of municipal wastewater. A promising application of biofilms is their location on an ion-exchange membrane. In this case, catalytic membrane serves as a fuel cell. In the simplest solution, microbial fuel cells change the chemical energy collected in compounds (wastes, renewal biomass) into the energy necessary to support the biological functions of microorganisms and additionally create a supply of electrical energy. Keeping a stable thickness of the microbial layer is a key to provide the process at stable efficiency. Selected methods for in situ disposal of redundant biofilm are presented.

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Can a microbial fuel cell resist the oxidation of Tomato pomace?

Cited by 21 publications

References 29 publications

Integrated membrane and microbial fuel cell technologies for enabling energy-efficient effluent Re-use in power plants

Integrated membrane and microbial fuel cell technologies for enabling energy-efficient effluent Re-use in power plants

Comprehensive Review on the Use of Food Industry Wastewater as Substrates in Microbial Fuel Cells

Biofilm-based membrane reactors – selected aspects of the application and microbial layer control

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