Sustainable and clean treatment of industrial wastewater with microbial fuel cell

• Main Author: Omprakash Sahu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019-12-01
• Series: Results in Engineering
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590123019300532

Industries play a vital role in nation advancement. The increase in the number of the industry also results in Energy and Environmental disturbances. Several industries need a lot of energy and freshwater for their processing and discharge a large amount of wastewater. This wastewater cannot be discharged directly to the surrounding or else bring a major problem to the nearby surrounding environment. So an investigation has been done to utilize the different industrial effluent for energy generation. The main aim of this research work is to employ the sugar industry, brewery industry, dairy industry and leather industry wastewater for microbial fuel cell feed. Different types of anode and cathode catalysts have been used with a different combination of monosaccharide's, nitrogen and amino acid electricity sources. At most favourable condition maximum 1.4 ​V open voltage ((current ​= ​23.66 ​mA and power density ​= ​5.1 ​mW/m2)), 51% chemical oxygen demand, 20 ​ml methane gas, was achieved at 20.5 ​°C temperature, 6.9 pH and Nafion cation exchanger. Keywords: Catalyst, Effluent, Microbes, Reaction, Waste