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Bioenergy Production from Tannery Waste via a Single-Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell with Fly Ash Cathodic Electrodes

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Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) are attracting attention for their application in simultaneous energy production and waste treatment, as innovative biochemical reactors. They usually operate under adiabatic conditions, utilizing microorganisms to treat wastewater compositions using mainly carbon-based electrodes as anodes and cathodes. During the past years, various anodic and cathodic electrodes with plenty of variations were used in MFC configurations. On the anode side metal-based electrodes are used while on the cathode, ceramic electrodes are currently introduced. In this study, a stainless steel anode is used in a single chamber MFC. Ceramic cathodic electrodes are used, coated with Fly Ash (FA). The mixed transition oxides of FA are tested as potential cathodic catalysts in the operation of the MFC. The FA powder was deposited by two methods: an ultrasound-assisted method and a conventional brush coating. Tannery liquid waste is used as the waste/substrate to be treated in the single-chamber MFC. The configuration with ultrasound-assisted Fly-Ash produced cathodic electrodes, led to the highest power output in batch operation modes and a high degree of simultaneous COD decrease of the tannery waste reaching the values of 0.44 mW/gcat and 85.6% COD removal respectively.

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Key Engineering Materials (Volume 962)

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105-112

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https://doi.org/10.4028/p-0xWsyq

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October 2023

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Pavlos K. Pandis*, Eleftherios Michopoulos, Charalambos Arvanitis, Christos Argirusis, Vassilis N. Stathopoulos, Gerasimos Lyberatos, Asimina Tremouli

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Bioenergy, Fly Ash Ceramic Electrodes, Microbial Fuel Cell, Tannery Waste, Waste Treatment

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