Efficacy of electrode position in microbial fuel cell for simultaneous Cr(VI) reduction and bioelectricity production.
Bioelectricity production
Cr(VI) reduction
Electrode position
Microbial fuel cells
Pseudomonas
Journal
The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
15 Dec 2020
15 Dec 2020
Historique:
received:
09
07
2020
revised:
27
07
2020
accepted:
31
07
2020
pubmed:
18
8
2020
medline:
29
10
2020
entrez:
18
8
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) that are bio-energy transducers capture bioelectricity produced from the oxidation of organic matter by using the electro-active bacteria grown on the biofilm attached on anode. Previous studies explored the effect of several limiting factors, such as electrode material, catalyst type, membrane structure, and electrolyte, on the electrochemical performance of MFCs. However, the effects of electrode position on Cr(VI) reduction and bioelectricity production remain unknown. In this study, MFCs with different electrode positions (i.e., 4 cm (MFC-4), 3 cm (MFC-3), 2 cm (MFC-2), and 1 cm (MFC-1)) were designed and fabricated to evaluate the overall performance of MFCs. The results of electrochemical analysis confirmed that MFC-2 exhibited low exchange transfer resistance (4.9 Ω) and strong conductivity, resulting in optimal electrochemical performance. In addition, Cr(VI) was completely removed within 11 h in MFC-2 with a large reduction rate of 0.91 g/m
Identifiants
pubmed: 32798878
pii: S0048-9697(20)34954-8
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141425
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Chromium
0R0008Q3JB
chromium hexavalent ion
18540-29-9
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
141425Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.