Using Low Cost Membrane in Dual-Chamber Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) for Petroleum Refinery Wastewater Treatment

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 ap...

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Published inJournal of physics. Conference series Vol. 1032; no. 1; pp. 12061 - 12067
Main Authors Allami, Shrok, Hasan, Basher, Redah, Mutawer, Hamody, Hayder, Abd Ali, Zainab D
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.05.2018
Subjects
Biochemical fuel cells
Maximum power
Membranes
Microorganisms
Petroleum refineries
Petroleum refining
Physics
Potassium
Potassium permanganate
Refineries
Room temperature
Wastewater treatment
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/1032/1/012061