Microbial Fuel Cell  

 



  Is what Microbial Fuel Cell ?

 It's a novle technology to generate pawer from the wastewater with the aid of "electrogenic bacteria".



 Is  what the difference between conventional wastewater treatment?

 In conventional wastewater treatment process such as activated sludge process, the disposal of the excess grown microbe is one of the big problem.
  On the other hand, in MFC system, most part of the orgenic carbon is used for power generation and the growth of microbe is little.
  Moreover, the power for aeration can also be saved.
  MFC is attracting worldwide attention as a tecnology recycling energy from wastewater.



  How is the configration?

 There are a lot of types of MFC.
  Below is an example of single chamber air-cathode MFC.


  Is it possible to remove nutrients from wastewater?

 It has been known to remove nitrogen in the wastewater by MFC is possible.
  Recently, we found phosporous can be removed by MFC.


 Publications   

  You can download from the link below.

  
  Osamu ICHIHASHI, Nozomi YAMAMOTO and Kayako HIROOKA
  Power  Generation by and  Microbial  Community  Structure in  Microbial  Fuel  Cell  Treating  Animal  Wastewater
  Journal of Japan Society on Water Environment  35(1), 19-26, (2012)
    


  Osamu ICHIHASHI and Kayako HIROOKA
  Removal and recovery of phosphorus as struvite from swine wastewater using microbial fuel cell
  Bioresource Technology, Volume 114, June 2012, Pages 303–307

  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2012.02.124

 Kayako HIROOKA and Osamu ICHIHASHI
 Phosphorus recovery from artificial wastewater by microbial fuel cell and its effect on power generation
 Bioresource Technology, Volume 137, June 2013, Pages 368–375
 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2013.03.067

 Osamu ICHIHASHI and Kayako HIROOKA
 Deterioration in the cathode performance during operation of the microbial fuel cells and the restoration of the performance by the immersion treatment
 Journal of Microbial & Biochemical Technology, S6, 2013, 006
 
 http://dx.doi:10.4172/1948-5948.S6-006 




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