Integrated Microbial Fuel Cells for Wastewater Treatment

Current wastewater treatment technologies are not sustainable simply due to their high operational costs and process inefficiency. Integrated Microbial Fuel Cells for Wastewater Treatment is intended for professionals who are searching for an innovative method to improve the efficiencies of wastewater treatment processes by exploiting the potential of Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) technology.

The book is broadly divided into four sections. It begins with an overview of the "state of the art" bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) as well as the fundamentals of MFC technology and its potential to enhance wastewater treatment efficiencies and reduce electricity generation cost. In section two, discusses the integration, installation, and optimization of MFC into conventional wastewater treatment processes such as activated sludge process, lagoons, constructed wetlands, and membrane bioreactors. Section three outlines integrations of MFCs into other wastewater processes. The final section provides explorative studies of MFC integrated systems for large scale wastewater treatment and the challenges which are inherent in the upscaling process.

Clearly describes the latest techniques for integrating MFC into traditional wastewater treatment processes such as activated sludge process, lagoons, constructed wetlands, and membrane bioreactorsDiscusses the fundamentals of bioelectrochemical systems for degrading the contaminants from the municipal and industrial wastewaterCovers methods for the optimization of integrated systems

1. Introduction 2. Application to Industrial Wastewater treatment 3. Microbial electrochemical treatment of heavy metals 4. Textile Wastewater Treatment using Microbial Fuel Cell and coupled systems: A Green Approach for Detoxification and Bioelectricity generation 5. Agro-industrial wastewater with MFCs 6. Pharmaceutical wastewater treatment in microbial fuel cells 7. Bioelectrochemical system for treating oilfield and petrochemical wastewater for sustainable energy generation 8. Bioelectrochemical systems for Stormwater Treatment and Energy Valorisation Processes 9. Treatment of food processing and beverage industry wastewaters in MFCIntegration of MFC with other wastewater treatment processes 10. Microbial fuel cell integrated algal bioreactor for sustainable wastewater treatment 11. Integration of bio-electrochemical systems with other existing wastewater treatment processes 12. An overview on membrane bioreactor coupled bioelectrochemical systems 13. The effects of MFC integration on constructed wetlands 14. Microbial fuel cells coupled with anaerobic treatment process for wastewater treatment 15. Integration of MECs with AD to treat beer industry wastewater 16. Large-Scale MFC: Potentials and Challenge