Using Low Cost Membrane in Dual-Chamber Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) for Petroleum Refinery Wastewater Treatment
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Open Access
- 1 May 2018
- conference paper
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
- Vol. 1032 (1) , 012061
Abstract
There are enormous methods to treat petroleum refinery wastewaters (PRW) that contain water-soluble hydrocarbons which cannot be separated by physical methods. Using microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a new PRW treatment method. Using potassium permanganate as cathodic electron acceptors in the cathode apartment of MFC with cheap proton exchange membrane instead of expensive Nafion was used in this work to treat PRW from Al Dura refinery. Potassium permanganate was used as cathodic electron acceptor to enhance MFC power production. So the effects of potassium permanganate amount on the MFC performance and PRW treatment results were investigated. Maximum power production at the room temperature of 1.0032 W/m2 using 0.125 g/L of permanganate concentration, the maximum COD removal efficiency was 71.24 % during 48 hours.Keywords
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