Bioelectrochemical Treatment and Purification of Wastewater
A special issue of Separations (ISSN 2297-8739). This special issue belongs to the section "Purification Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2024 | Viewed by 182
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental biotechnology; wastewater treatment; bioelectrochemical pollutant treatment process; environmental microbiology engineering; integrated devices design
Interests: water/wastewater treatment; environmental bioelectrochemistry; bioelectrochemistry-based water quality determination; water restoration
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The bioelectrochemical treatment and purification of wastewater is one of the most attractive environmental research fields in the literature. A perspective that promotes this key interest is the possibility of sustainable and carbon neutralization processes, innovative microorganisms, and low-cost wastewater treatment. However, more attention is needed in designing efficient electrode/reactor configurations, process arrangements, and field-scale application research to achieve desirable performances and minimize costs. The analysis and optimization of the factors affecting the functioning of systems and their applications are relevant steps in determining the performance of the bioelectrochemical process and the purification of wastewater.
Therefore, it is my pleasure to invite you to contribute your research article, communication, or review to the Special Issue dedicated to treatment processes, active microbes, electrode materials, and reactor design of bioelectrochemical treatment and purification of wastewater.
Dr. Nuan Yang
Dr. Fei Guo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioelectrochemical systems
- bioelectrochemical treatment
- wastewater treatment and purification
- electrodes and reactor design
- electricity generation
- nitrogen removal
- electroactive bacteria
- conductive materials
- biofilm formation
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Understanding the ecological distribution and contribution of electrogenes in a single-chambered air cathode microbial fuel cell
Authors: Xiaojun Jin, Nuan Yang, Wenyi Wang, Pan Liu
Affiliation: Info
Northeastern UniversityThis link is disabled., Shenyang, China
Abstract: The present study fabricates a single-chambered air cathode microbial fuel cell (SAMFC) excluding nitrifying process and investigates the metabolic processes of nutrients along with ecological evolution of functional bacteria. Through the optimized startup method, SAMFC with high abundance content of electroactive bacteria (EAB) shows the maximum power density of 7.2V/m3 and the columbic efficiency of 38.0%. In this process, only 13.5 ± 1.0% ammonium loss and no nitrate indicated that there was no nitrifying process in the cathode of SAMFC because no significant nitrification and denitrification occurred for nitrogen removal. When nitrate instead of ammonium, 4.9 ± 0.2% of nitrite and 11.4 ± 1.2% of ammonium produced in the medium which mainly attributed to the electrochemical process. Microbial community analysis showed that the EAB of Geobacter sp. and Pseudomonas sp. as the dominant genera accounted for 63.7% in the anode and 29.4% in the cathode, respectively. The distribution characterization of functional bacteria in SAMFC comprehensively reveals the significant role of EAB and their ecological distribution and contribution in electrochemical system.
