Pluggable microbial fuel cell stacks for septic wastewater treatment and electricity production

By Hadi Yazdi and Liliana Alzate-Gaviria and Zhiyong Jason Ren
Published in Bioresource Technology NULL 2015

Abstract

Septic tanks and other decentralized wastewater treatment systems play an important role in protecting public health and water resource for remote or developing communities. Current septic systems do not have energy production capability, yet such feature can be very valuable for areas lack access to electricity. Here we present an easy-to-operate microbial fuel cell (MFC) stack that consists a common base and multiple pluggable units, which can be connected in either series or parallel for electricity generation during waste treatment in septic tanks. Lab studies showed such easy configuration obtained a power density of 142

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