People have long known there is energy in wastewater; extracting it economically is the problem. Startup Cambrian Innovation claims its technology can do it and a brewery and a winery are now using it to clean their wastewater while ...
Tags: energy in wastewater, reduced energy costs, wastewater reuse
A Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) can simultaneously generate electricity and treat wastewater, but currently used materials and catalysts lead to high operational costs. This work investigates the use of sulfonated poly ether ether ketone ...
Tags: Microbial Fuel Cell, Electrical, Electronics
An osmotic microbial fuel cell (OsMFC) containing a forward-osmosis membrane, is hydraulically coupled with a microbial desalination cell (MDC) with ion-exchange membranes, for greatly improved desalination efficiency. It also achieves more ...
Tags: Microbial Fuel Cell, Cell, Electrical, Electronics
This study demonstrates that the anodic Fenton process could be integrated with a microbial fuel cell to develop a self-sustained system for energy-efficient electrochemical treatment of organic wastewater pollutants. ...
Tags: Fenton, Microbial Fuel, wastewater