Electricity production from beer brewery wastewater using single chamber microbial fuel cell

X Wang; Y J Feng; H Lee

doi:10.2166/wst.2008.064

Electricity production from beer brewery wastewater using single chamber microbial fuel cell

Water Sci Technol. 2008;57(7):1117-21. doi: 10.2166/wst.2008.064.

Authors

X Wang¹, Y J Feng, H Lee

Affiliation

¹ Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, No 202, Haihe Road, Nangang District, Harbin 150090, China.

PMID: 18441441
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2008.064

Abstract

The performance of electricity production from beer brewery wastewater in a single chamber membrane-free microbial fuel cell (MFC) was investigated. Experimental results showed that the MFCs could generate electricity from full-strength wastewater (2,239 mg-COD/L, 50 mM PBS added) with the maximum power density of 483 mW/m2 (12 W/m3) at 30 degrees C and 435 mW/m2 (11 W/m3) at 20 degrees C, respectively. Temperature was found to have bigger impact on cathode potential than anode potential. Results suggested that it is feasible to generate electricity with the treatment of beer brewery wastewater.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Beer*
Bioelectric Energy Sources*
Electricity*
Fermentation
Food Industry / methods*
Oxygen / metabolism
Temperature
Waste Disposal, Fluid / methods*

Substances

Oxygen