Continuous hydrogen production from food waste by anaerobic digestion (AD) coupled single-chamber microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) under negative pressure

J Huang, H Feng, L Huang, X Ying, D Shen, T Chen… - Waste management, 2020 - Elsevier
Increased generation of food waste (FW) poses significant risks to the social environment,
and therefore it is critical that efficient technology be developed for effective waste …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancement of hydrogen production and energy recovery through electro-fermentation from the dark fermentation effluent of food waste

X Jia, M Li, Y Wang, Y Wu, L Zhu, X Wang… - Environmental Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
To enhance hydrogen production efficiency and energy recovery, a sequential dark
fermentation and microbial electrochemical cell (MEC) process was evaluated for hydrogen …

Recovery of biohydrogen in a single-chamber microbial electrohydrogenesis cell using liquid fraction of pressed municipal solid waste (LPW) as substrate

G Zhen, T Kobayashi, X Lu, G Kumar, Y Hu… - international journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The use of liquid fraction of pressed municipal solid waste (LPW) for hydrogen production
was evaluated via electrohydrogenesis in a single-chamber microbial electrolysis cell …

Next generation digestion: Complementing anaerobic digestion (AD) with a novel microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) design

A Hassanein, F Witarsa, X Guo, L Yong… - international journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
This study determined the effect of incorporating a microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) with an
anaerobic digester (AD) in a single chamber. The study evaluated three treatments: a …

Optimization of high-solid waste activated sludge concentration for hydrogen production in microbial electrolysis cells and microbial community diversity analysis

R Sun, D Xing, J Jia, Q Liu, A Zhou, S Bai… - International journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
To enhance hydrogen recovery from high-solid waste activated sludge (WAS), microbial
electrolysis cells (MECs) were used as an efficient device. The effects of WAS …

Bio-electrohydrolysis as a pretreatment strategy to catabolize complex food waste in closed circuitry: function of electron flux to enhance acidogenic biohydrogen …

K Chandrasekhar, SV Mohan - International journal of hydrogen energy, 2014 - Elsevier
A novel bio-electrohydrolysis system (BEH) based on self-inducing electrogenic activity was
designed as a pretreatment device to enhance biohydrogen (H 2) production efficiency of …

Hydrogen production with effluent from an anaerobic baffled reactor (ABR) using a single-chamber microbial electrolysis cell (MEC)

T Wu, G Zhu, AK Jha, R Zou, L Liu, X Huang… - International Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
In the process of fermentative bio-hydrogen production, organic matter is degraded into
volatile fatty acids and ethanol, and consequently thermodynamic constraints prevent the …

Enhanced biohydrogen production from waste activated sludge in combined strategy of chemical pretreatment and microbial electrolysis

L Wang, W Liu, L Kang, C Yang, A Zhou… - international journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Cascade conversion methods are required to treat waste sludge (WAS) targeting at
abundant biomass embedded in its cells and extracellular polymer. Two limiting factors have …

Performance enhancement of integrating microbial electrolysis cell on two-stage anaerobic digestion of food waste: Electro-methanogenic stage versus electro-two …

T Zheng, C Bian, B Xiao, X Chen, J Wang, L Li - Bioresource Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
The effects of microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) integration stage on two-stage anaerobic
digestion (TSAD) of food waste (FW) were studied via semi-continuous experiments. The …

Simultaneous biohythane and volatile fatty acids production from food waste in microbial electrolysis cell-assisted acidogenic reactor

C Bian, X Chen, J Wang, B Xiao, R Liu, L Li… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
To enhance resource recovery from food waste (FW), a semi-continuous experiment was
conducted to study simultaneous biohythane and volatile fatty acids (VFAs) production from …