Anoxic-aerobic microbial fuel cell in treating spent caustic wastewater: varies in electrode pairs

Norsafiah, Fazli and Noor Sabrina, Ahmad Mutamim and Tengku Indok Munirah, Daeng Yacob (2018) Anoxic-aerobic microbial fuel cell in treating spent caustic wastewater: varies in electrode pairs. In: Proceedings Book: National Conference for Postgraduate Research (NCON-PGR 2018), 28-29 August 2018 , Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Gambang, Pahang. pp. 112-123.. ISBN 978-967-22260-5-5

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Abstract

In this study, the performance of a continuous fed anoxic-aerobic Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) reactor operated with spent caustic wastewater was investigated by varying the electrode pairs of different cathode materials. Three types of electrode pairs tested were carbon-carbon (C-C), carbon-aluminium (C-Al) and carbon-copper (C-Cu). Spent caustic wastewater is the industrial wastewater with high COD concentration influenced by its high sulfur content, high salinity and high alkalinity. Little is known on the capacity of MFC to treat spent caustic wastewater, therefore the present study employed spent caustic wastewater as the feed wastewater. The performance of MFC with different electrode pairs was evaluated in terms of the voltage production, Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) and sulfide removal efficiency. From the study, C-C electrode pairs was the best electrode pairs for the MFC operation with the highest voltage production of 189.1 mV and highest COD and sulfide removal effiaciency of 89.1% and 99.91% respectively.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Microbial Fuel Cell; spent caustic wastewater; electrode; chemical oxygen demand; wastewater treatment; voltage production.
Subjects: T Technology > TP Chemical technology
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering
Depositing User: Pn. Hazlinda Abd Rahman
Date Deposited: 13 Dec 2018 04:29
Last Modified: 24 Jul 2019 02:56
URI: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/23055
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