“…In recent years, BMED has been applied to the production of gluconic acid [ 14 , 15 ], citric acid [ 17 ], succinic acid [ 18 ], niacin [ 19 ], tartaric acid [ 20 ], L-10-camphorsulfonic acid [ 10 ], etc. Currently, however, there are only a limited number of reports about the cleaner production of malic acid by BMED [ 4 , 21 , 22 , 23 ]. For instance, Quoc et al reported that the electro-acidification of cloudy apple juice containing malic acid was carried out by BMED with a BP-A configuration (no current efficiency and energy consumption data) [ 21 , 22 ]; Vera et al reported a deacidification process of clarified tropical fruit juices, containing malic acid, by BMED with a BP-A configuration, in which the current efficiency and energy consumption are ~30% and ~0.13 kWh/kg, respectively, at a current density of 10 mA/cm 2 [ 24 ]; Lameloise et al reported the malic acid recovery from a beverage industry wastewater by BMED with a BP-C configuration, in which the conversion ratio, current efficiency and energy consumption of the malic acid were 93–97%, 87–97% and 1.15–1.27 kWh/kg, respectively, at a current density of ~50 mA/cm 2 [ 4 ]; and Liu et al reported a novel BMED process (BP-A-C configuration) integrated with a biochemical process for the malic acid production, in which the conversion ratio, current efficiency and energy consumption of the malic acid were 76.7% (calculated by 0.3 mol/L malate conversed into 0.23 mol/L malic acid), 70% and 0.34 kWh/kg at a low current density of ~1 mA/cm 2 [ 23 ].…”