Effect of microbial fuel cell operation time on the disinfection efficacy of electrochemically synthesised catholyte from urine.

ABSTRACT: Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) offer an excellent solution to tackle some of the major challenges currently faced by humankind: sustainable energy sources, waste management and water stress. Besides treating wastewater and producing useful electricity from urine, ceramic MFCs can also generate biocidal catholyte in-situ. It has been proved that the electricity generation from the MFCs has a high impact in the catholyte composition. Therefore, the catholyte composition constantly changes while electricity is generated. However, these changes in catholyte composition with time has not yet been studied and that could highly contribute to the disinfection efficacy. In this work, the evolution of the catholyte generation and composition with the MFC operation time has been chemically and mi

SUBMITTER: Merino-Jimenez I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7893686 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature