Electrolysis-enhanced anaerobic digestion of wastewater

B Tartakovsky, P Mehta, JS Bourque, SR Guiot - Bioresource technology, 2011 - Elsevier
This study demonstrates enhanced methane production from wastewater in laboratory-scale
anaerobic reactors equipped with electrodes for water electrolysis. The electrodes were …

An integrated microbial electrolysis-anaerobic digestion process combined with pretreatment of wastewater solids to improve hydrogen production

JR Beegle, AP Borole - Environmental Science: Water Research & …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
A combined anaerobic digestion (AD) and microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) system, named
here as ADMEC, was investigated to evaluate the energy recovery from pretreated …

Enhancement of anaerobic methanogenesis at a short hydraulic retention time via bioelectrochemical enrichment of hydrogenotrophic methanogens

Y Li, Y Zhang, Y Liu, Z Zhao, Z Zhao, S Liu, H Zhao… - Bioresource …, 2016 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is an important energy strategy for converting organic waste to CH
4. A major factor limiting the practical applicability of AD is the relatively long hydraulic …

An integrated anaerobic digestion and microbial electrolysis system for the enhancement of methane production from organic waste: Fundamentals, innovative design …

A Thanarasu, K Periyasamy, S Subramanian - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
In the foreseeable future, renewable energy generation from electromethanogenesis to be
more cost-effective energy. Electromethanogenesis system is a recent and efficient CO 2 to …

Bio-electrochemically hydrogen and methane production from co-digestion of wastes

KB Prajapati, R Singh - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The batch study was carried out to investigate the potential of the bioelectrochemical system
in solid-state anaerobic digestion for hydrogen and methane production under thermophilic …

Microbial electrolysis contribution to anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge, leading to accelerated methane production

W Liu, W Cai, Z Guo, L Wang, C Yang, C Varrone… - Renewable Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Methane production rate (MPR) in waste activated sludge (WAS) digestion processes is
typically limited by the initial steps of complex organic matter degradation, leading to a …

Methane production enhancement by an independent cathode in integrated anaerobic reactor with microbial electrolysis

W Cai, T Han, Z Guo, C Varrone, A Wang, W Liu - Bioresource technology, 2016 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) represents a potential way to achieve energy recovery from waste
organics. In this study, a novel bioelectrochemically-assisted anaerobic reactor is …

Bioelectrochemical enhancement of hydrogen and methane production from the anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge in single-chamber membrane-free microbial …

X Guo, J Liu, B Xiao - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2013 - Elsevier
Batch tests were carried out to investigate the bioelectrochemical enhancement of hydrogen
and methane production from the anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge in single-chamber …

Bioelectrochemical enhancement of methane production from highly concentrated food waste in a combined anaerobic digester and microbial electrolysis cell

J Park, B Lee, D Tian, H Jun - Bioresource technology, 2018 - Elsevier
A microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) is a promising technology for enhancing biogas
production from an anaerobic digestion (AD) reactor. In this study, the effects of the MEC on …

Enhanced decomposition of waste activated sludge via anodic oxidation for methane production and bioenergy recovery

Z Zhao, Y Zhang, Q Yu, W Ma, J Sun, X Quan - International …, 2016 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion operated in microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) may have a higher
methane production since the potential cathodic reduction of carbon dioxide. However, the …