Rice mill wastewater treatment in microbial fuel cells fabricated using proton exchange membrane and earthen pot at different pH

Behera, Manaswini; Jana, Partha Sarathi; More, Tanaji; Ghangrekar, Makarand M.

doi:10.1016/j.bioelechem.2010.06.002

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“…A variety of wastewater have been used in MFC as fuel such as domestic sewage with voltages ranging from 0.43-0.44 V (Ahn and Logan, 2010) and 0.32±0.01 V (Liu et al, 2004);Huang and Logan, 2008 were able to produce the power output of 400 mV -420 mV using paper and pulp wastewater; maximum voltages generated in an MFC using Rice mill wastewater were 0.304 V and 0.172 V (Behera et al, 2010); brewery wastewater was able to produce 0.071 -0.330 V (Feng et al, 2008); a current of 2.12-2.48 mA were recorded using distillery wastewater (Mohanakrishna et al, 2010); in odor-producing compounds treatment of swine wastewater a maximum of 0.4 V were recorded (Kim et al, 2008); Oil refinery wastewater produced the maximum voltage output of 0.355 V (Majumder et al,2014). A maximum open-circuit potential of 2.2 V was obtained using rice mill wastewater with the anode in batch-fed mode of operation (Daniel et al, 2009); 0.4908 V achieved using starch processing wastewater (Lu et al, 2009); 0.421V was produced using starch processing wastewater (Park et al, 2001), 0.207±0.03 V to 0.350±0.025 V were recorded using municipal Wastewater (Mohanakrishna et al, 2010); high open circuit voltage (OCV) of 0.810 V were reported using dairy industry wastewater (Lu et al, 2009), 0.689 V was generated using coconut husk retting wastewater (Park et al, 2001), near 1 V open circuit potential (OCV) were (Baranitharan et al, 2013).…”

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“…These MFCs can further optimize for enhancing the power output as well as treatment efficiency using a combination of series and parallel connection, addition of mediators and temperature control, co-culture etc. (Behera et al, 2010, Qu et al, 2012.…”

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“…A variety of wastewater has been used in MFC as fuel such as domestic sewage (Ahn and Logan, 2010;Liu et al, 2004), paper and pulp (Huang & Logan, 2008), rice mill (Behera et al, 2010), brewery (Feng et al, 2008), swine wastewater (Kim et al, 2008) and phenolic wastewater (Luo et al, 2009) , Oil refinery wastewater (Majumder et al, 2014), Effluent rice mill wastewater (Daniel et al, 2009), chocolate industry wastewater (Patil et al, 2009), and real dye wastewater (Kalathil et al, 2012) etc.…”

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Bioelectricity Production and Comparative Evaluation of Electrode Materials in Microbial Fuel Cells Using Indigenous Anode-Reducing Bacterial Community from Wastewater of Rice-Based Industries

Jadhav

Meshram

2017

Int. J. Renew. Energy Dev.

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Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are the electrochemical systems that harness the electricity production capacity of certain microbes from the reduction of biodegradable compounds. The present study aimed to develop mediator-less MFC without using expensive proton exchange membrane. In the present study, a triplicate of dual-chamber, mediator-less MFCs was operated with two local rice based industrial wastewater to explore the potential of this wastewater as a fuel option in these electrochemical systems. 30 combinations of 6 electrodes viz. Carbon (14 cm × 1.5 cm), Zn (14.9 cm × 4.9 cm), Cu (14.9 cm × 4.9 cm), Sn (14.1cm × 4.5cm), Fe (14cm × 4cm) and Al (14cm × 4.5 cm) were evaluated for each of the wastewater samples. Zn-C as anode-cathode combination produced a maximum voltage that was 1.084±0.016V and 1.086±0.028 and current of 1.777±0.115mA and 1.503±0.120 for KRM and SSR, respectively. In the present study, thick biofilm has been observed growing in MFC anode. Total 14 bacterial isolates growing in anode were obtained from two of the wastewater. The dual chambered, membrane-less and mediator-less MFCs were employed successfully to improve the economic feasibility of these electrochemical systems to generate bioelectricity and wastewater treatment simultaneously.Keywords: Membrane-less, Microbial Fuel Cells, Biofilm, Wastewater, Electrogenic.Article History: Received June 25th 2016; Received in revised form Dec 15th 2016; Accepted January 5th 2017; Available onlineHow to Cite This Article: Reena, M. and Jadhav, S. K. (2017) Bioelectricity production and Comparative Evaluation of Electrode Materials in Microbial Fuel Cells using Indigenous Anode-reducing Bacterial Community from Wastewater of Rice-based Industries. International Journal of Renewable Energy Develeopment, 6(1), 83-92.http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/ijred.6.1.83-92

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Bioelectricity Production and Comparative Evaluation of Electrode Materials in Microbial Fuel Cells Using Indigenous Anode-Reducing Bacterial Community from Wastewater of Rice-Based Industries

Jadhav

Meshram

2017

Int. J. Renew. Energy Dev.

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“…Microorganisms are self-regenerating systems that can oxidize substrates such as glucose, sucrose, alcohols, grape juice, or wastewaters from different origins as starch, beer brewery, chocolate industry, food processing and sewage sludge wastes from food industry (Allen and Bennetto, 1993;Behera et al 2010;Herrero-Hernandez, Smith and Akid, 2013;Moqsud et al 2013). The electrons resulting from these microorganism metabolisms are generally transferred to a high potential electron acceptor such as dissolved oxygen in the medium whereas in MFCs, electrons are transferred to an anode and if the electrons are led to the cathode through an external circuit, a voltage drop and an electrical current are produced (Li et al 2014;Hernández-Fernández et al 2015).…”

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Bioelectricity Production from Various Feedstocks Using Pure Strain of Bacillus firmus

Singh

Pandey

Dwivedi

2016

Int. J. Renew. Energy Dev.

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Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are bio-electrochemical devices that exploit microorganisms for producing electricity from a variety of materials, including complex organic waste and renewable biomass. In this study, the heterotrophic microbe, Bacillus firmus was used as the active bacterial component with synthetic waste waters for bio-electricity production. Three identical mediatorless and membraneless single chambered microbial fuel cells (MFCs) without catalyst was fabricated with different carbon source and operated in batch mode. The performance of these MFCs with glucose, hydrolyzed potato peel and hydrolyzed cyanobacterial biomass substrates were comparatively evaluated. Among these substrates hydrolyzed cyanobacterial biomass was found to be the favorable substrate for electricity production whereas potato peel was unable to construct a well-established MFC. The maximum power density of 16.46mW/m2 at 62.48mA/m2 was achieved using cyanobacterial mass as the substrate. A current density of 53.47mA/m2 appeared to characterize the maximum power produced from a polarization test was 5.85mW/m2 for glucose substrate. Article History: Received February 25th 2016; Received in revised form April 18th 2016; Accepted May 19th 2016; Available onlineHow to Cite This Article: Singh, S., Pandey, A. and Dwivedi, C.K. (2016) Bioelectricity Production from Various Feedstocks Using Pure Strain of Bacillus firmus. Int. Journal of Renewable Energy Development, 5(2), 119-127.http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/ijred.5.2.119-127

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“…The advances in separator materials and configurations have opened up new promises to overcome these limitations, but challenges remain for the practical full scale application of MFC for wastewater treatment using this material because of its high production cost and fouling of membrane expected requiring replacement. Recently successful treatment of synthetic and rice mill w astewater has been reported in MFC fabricated using earthen pot acting as membrane and its performance has been compared with MFC fabricated using Nafion membrane [9,10]. In terms of organic matter removal and power production it is reported that the earthen pot membrane MFC demonstrated better performance than the Nafion membrane MFC.…”

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Performance and Economics of Low Cost Clay Cylinder Microbial Fuel Cell for Wastewater Treatment

Satyam

Behera

Ghangrekar

2011

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings

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Current wastewater treatment processes require large amount of power for various treatment units and most of the useful energy available in the wastewater remains unrecovered. With increase in demand for clean treatment technologies, Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) technology is a v iable option for treatment of wastewater, since simultaneous recovery of energy in the form of direct electricity with desired degree of treatment can be achieved in this process. Extensive research on MFCs is going on at laboratory scale but very few pilot scale studies have been reported. An attempt has been made to produce low cost scaled up MFCs fabricated using naturally available cheaper clay material as proton exchange membrane without involving any costly polymer membrane or noble metals for electrode fabrication. The results of the experimental study are promising and encouraging for further scaling up of MFCs. Economic feasibility of MFCs for treating municipal wastewater having COD of 500 mg •L-1 has been studied. The cost analysis shows that clay material may be suitable option as a membrane in scaling up of MFCs. It needs further study on strength of clay material as membrane to handle higher wastewater flows in larger reactor volume. Although, these clay MFCs were operated for more than six months, the life of this material without deteriorating its functional utility also need attention.

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Rice mill wastewater treatment in microbial fuel cells fabricated using proton exchange membrane and earthen pot at different pH

Cited by 273 publications

References 36 publications

Bioelectricity Production and Comparative Evaluation of Electrode Materials in Microbial Fuel Cells Using Indigenous Anode-Reducing Bacterial Community from Wastewater of Rice-Based Industries

Bioelectricity Production and Comparative Evaluation of Electrode Materials in Microbial Fuel Cells Using Indigenous Anode-Reducing Bacterial Community from Wastewater of Rice-Based Industries

Bioelectricity Production from Various Feedstocks Using Pure Strain of Bacillus firmus

Performance and Economics of Low Cost Clay Cylinder Microbial Fuel Cell for Wastewater Treatment

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