High rate copper and energy recovery in microbial fuel cells

P. Rodenas Motos; A. ter Heijne; R.D. van der Weijden; M. Saakes; C.J.N. Buisman; T.H.J.A. Sleutels

doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.00527

High rate copper and energy recovery in microbial fuel cells

P. Rodenas Motos^*, A. ter Heijne, R.D. van der Weijden, M. Saakes, C.J.N. Buisman, T.H.J.A. Sleutels

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Abstract

Bioelectrochemicalsystems(BESs)areanovel,promisingtechnologyfortherecoveryofmetals.Theprerequisiteforupscalingfromlaboratorytoindustrialsizeisthathighcurrentandhighpowerdensitiescanbeproduced.Inthisstudywereporttherecoveryofcopperfromacoppersulfatestream(2gL-1Cu2+)usingalaboratoryscaleBESathighrate.Toachievethis,weusedanovelcellconfigurationtoreducetheinternalvoltagelossesofthesystem.Attheanode,electroactivemicroorganismsproduceelectronsatthesurfaceofanelectrode,whichgeneratesastablecellvoltageof485mVwhencombinedwithacathodewherecopperisreduced.Inthissystem,amaximumcurrentdensityof23Am-2incombinationwithapowerdensityof5.5Wm-2wasproduced.XRDanalysisconfirmed99%purityincopperofcopperdepositedontocathodesurface.Analysisofvoltagelossesshowedthatatthehighestcurrent,mostvoltagelossesoccurredatthecathode,andmembrane,whileanodelosseshadthelowestcontributiontothetotalvoltageloss.TheseresultsencouragefurtherdevelopmentofBESsforbioelectrochemicalmetalrecovery

Original language	English
Article number	527
Number of pages	8
Journal	Frontiers in Microbiology
Volume	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00527
Publication status	Published - 2015

Keywords

Bioelectrochemical systems
Copper
Metal recovery
Microbial fuel cell
Water treatment

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High rate copper and energy recovery in microbial fuel cells

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