Research shows that Municipal wastewater works best if fed in a certain COD range. However, there are many factors involved which lead to the efficiency of MFCs. As per your research experience, what are your thoughts about the question in the title among various types like municipal, tannery, sugar mill WW etc. and many more.
Hello Somil Thakur ,
The soluble fraction of the COD needs to be sufficiently high for efficient operation of microbial fuel cells (MFC). This is not the case in most municipal wastewaters. In addition this soluble COD needs to be well biodegradable.
If your objective is high power density and efficiency then dry algae biomass combined with activated sludge at 5000 mg COD / liter produced the highest power density of 1.78 W/m² at 0.89 Volt over 1000 Ohm resistance.
Hello Bruno Peeters ,
Thank you very much for your reply and valuable information.
I would also like to know about your thoughts on which industry will be most suitable for MFCs implementation, based on the waste it generates.
Thank you for your appreciation Somil Thakur .
Well, if you apply the 3 COD criteria (high, soluble, biodegradable) to wastewaters you will find a broad range of agri-food-beverage industries producing wastewaters with high bioenergy potential.
Since 1980 we apply and develop our high rate AD+™ bioenergy technology on these wastewaters worldwide with focus on Asia and convert up to 99% of the wastewater COD to bioenergy. You can find more on our webpage https://www.modelengineering.eu/circulate_energy .
If interested, I would be happy to email you our key AD+™ references with wastewater load, COD and bioenergy yield.
Bruno Peeters
Thank you very much.
I went through the website and would definitely like to know more.
Please mail me the references at [email protected]
Thank you for your interest Dr. Somil Thakur .
I've just emailed you our key AD+™ bioenergy references and messaged you on LinkedIn as well.
Bruno
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