Moving towards practical applications of microbial fuel cells for sanitation and resource recovery
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  • Author:
    Dipak Jadhav, Indrasis Das, M. M. Ghangrekar, Deepak Pant
  • Abstract:

    Sanitation is the basic quality index of life and proper sanitation practices play a vital role in maintaining the hygienic conditions. Use of human waste (urine and faeces) as a substrate for microbial oxidation is found to be sustainable approach towards improving the sanitation facilities. 

    Advancement in microbial fuel cell (MFC) system towards field-scale application for treatment of human waste is restricted by several technological, social, economical, material science and bio-electrochemical limitations. However, recently developed Pee-power urinal and Bioelectric toilet demonstrated the field-scale applicability of MFC for human waste treatment and simultaneous electricity generation for onsite use. 

    This review mainly focuses on suitability and applicability of human waste as a substrate in MFC to improve the sanitation facilities and also the challenges faced while scaling-up of this system for field applications are being discussed along with possible solutions. 

    Recent advancement towards field-scale application of MFC demonstrated that this technology is getting ready for the commercialization in sanitation infrastructure.

  • Journal:
    Journal of Water Process Engineering
  • Publisher:
    Elsevier
  • Volume (Issue):
    38
  • Page:
    101566
  • Sector:
    Biorefinery   
  • Publication Type:
    Review Article
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