Journal of Microbial & Biochemical Technology

Tyler Huggins

Publications

• Research Article
  Energy and Performance Comparison of Microbial Fuel Cell and Conventional Aeration Treating of Wastewater
  Author(s): Tyler Huggins, Paul H Fallgren, Song Jin and Zhiyong Jason RenTyler Huggins, Paul H Fallgren, Song Jin and Zhiyong Jason Ren
  
  Microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology provides a low cost alternative to conventional aerated wastewater treatment, however, there has been little comparison between MFC and aeration treatment using real wastewater as the substrate. This study attempts to directly compare the wastewater treatment efficiency and energy consumption and generation among three reactor systems-a traditional aeration process, a simple submerged MFC configuration, and a control reactor acting similar as natural lagoons. Results showed that all three systems were able to remove >90% of COD, but the aeration used shorter time (8 days) than the MFC (10 days) and control reactor (25 days). Compared to aeration, the MFC showed lower removal efficiency in high COD concentration, but much higher efficiency when the COD is low. Only the aeration system showed complete nitrification during the operation, reflected .. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/1948-5948.S6-002

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