articleEnergy & Environmental ScienceNov 28, 2013HYBRID OA

Towards sustainable wastewater treatment by using microbial fuel cells-centered technologies

University of Science and Technology of China · Virginia Tech

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Abstract

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have been conceived and intensively studied as a promising technology to achieve sustainable wastewater treatment. However, doubts and debates arose in recent years regarding the technical and economic viability of this technology on a larger scale and in a real-world applications. Hence, it is time to think about and examine how to recalibrate this technology's role in a future paradigm of sustainable wastewater treatment. In the past years, many good ideas/approaches have been proposed and investigated for MFC application, but information is scattered. Various review papers were published on MFC configuration, substrates, electrode materials, separators and microbiology but there…

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Keywords
  • Microbial fuel cell
  • Sewage treatment
  • Wastewater
  • Biochemical engineering
  • Process (computing)
  • Computer science
  • Process engineering
  • Environmental science
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Clean water and sanitation
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