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Scale-up and other challenges of Bioelectrochemical Systems

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Resumo:Scientific interest in Bioelectrochemical Systems (BES) is increasing exponentially, as assessed by the number of published papers after 2000. Microbial Fuel Cells and Microbial Electrolysis Cells are interesting research devices but real and full scale applications are still challenging. How far these systems can go beyond the controlled and simulated lab environment? In my talk, scale-up considerations of BES will be revised and some examples discussed, as for example the pilot scale BES developed in the FP7 Value from Urine project. Some quest ions will be addressed such as: What are the main advantages of these systems as compared with traditional wastewater treatment processes? How these systems can be u sed for eff icient resource recovery? How they can be coup led w i th energy storage devices as for example redox flow batteries? Finally I w il l present some fundamental aspects of carbon materials -bacteria/archaea interactions of relevance in BES and beyond.
Autores principais:Alves, M. M.
Assunto:Engenharia e Tecnologia::Biotecnologia Industrial Engenharia e Tecnologia::Biotecnologia Ambiental
Ano:2017
País:Portugal
Tipo de documento:outro
Tipo de acesso:acesso aberto
Instituição associada:Universidade do Minho
Idioma:inglês
Origem:RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
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Resumo:Scientific interest in Bioelectrochemical Systems (BES) is increasing exponentially, as assessed by the number of published papers after 2000. Microbial Fuel Cells and Microbial Electrolysis Cells are interesting research devices but real and full scale applications are still challenging. How far these systems can go beyond the controlled and simulated lab environment? In my talk, scale-up considerations of BES will be revised and some examples discussed, as for example the pilot scale BES developed in the FP7 Value from Urine project. Some quest ions will be addressed such as: What are the main advantages of these systems as compared with traditional wastewater treatment processes? How these systems can be u sed for eff icient resource recovery? How they can be coup led w i th energy storage devices as for example redox flow batteries? Finally I w il l present some fundamental aspects of carbon materials -bacteria/archaea interactions of relevance in BES and beyond.