Behavior of two-chamber microbial electrochemical systems started-up with different ion-exchange membrane separators.
Bioelectrochemical system
Membrane
Microbial community structure
Microbial fuel cell
Principal component analysis
Separator
Journal
Bioresource technology
ISSN: 1873-2976
Titre abrégé: Bioresour Technol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9889523
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Apr 2019
Apr 2019
Historique:
received:
13
12
2018
revised:
21
01
2019
accepted:
22
01
2019
pubmed:
2
2
2019
medline:
15
8
2019
entrez:
2
2
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
In this study, microbial fuel cells (MFCs) - operated with novel cation- and anion-exchange membranes, in particular AN-VPA 60 (CEM) and PSEBS DABCO (AEM) - were assessed comparatively with Nafion proton exchange membrane (PEM). The process characterization involved versatile electrochemical (polarization, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy - EIS, cyclic voltammetry - CV) and biological (microbial structure analysis) methods in order to reveal the influence of membrane-type during start-up. In fact, the use of AEM led to 2-5 times higher energy yields than CEM and PEM and the lowest MFC internal resistance (148 ± 17 Ω) by the end of start-up. Regardless of the membrane-type, Geobacter was dominantly enriched on all anodes. Besides, CV and EIS measurements implied higher anode surface coverage of redox compounds for MFCs and lower membrane resistance with AEM, respectively. As a result, AEM based on PSEBS DABCO could be found as a promising material to substitute Nafion.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30708331
pii: S0960-8524(19)30121-X
doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.01.097
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Fluorocarbon Polymers
0
perfluorosulfonic acid
39464-59-0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
279-286Informations de copyright
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