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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