Bioelectrochemical CO2 Reduction to Methane: MES Integration in Biogas Production Processes
Anirudh Bhanu Teja Nelabhotla, Carlos Dinamarca
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100% confidenceAdvanced BES research focusing on electrode, performance. Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a widely used technique to treat organic waste and produce biogas. This article presents a practical approach to i...
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Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a widely used technique to treat organic waste and produce biogas. This article presents a practical approach to increase biogas yield of an AD system using a microbial electrosynthesis system (MES). The biocathode in MES reduces carbon dioxide with the supplied electrons and protons (H+) to form methane. We demonstrate that the MES is able to produce biogas with over 90% methane when fed with reject water obtained from a local wastewater treatment plant. The optimised cathode potential was observed in the range of −0.70 V to −0.60 V and optimised feed pH was around 7.0. With autoclaved feed, these conditions allowed methane yields of about 9.05 mmol/L(reactor)-day. A control experiment was then carried out to make a comparison between open circuit and MES methanogenesis. The highest methane yield of about 22.1 mmol/L(reactor)-day was obtained during MES operation that performed 10–15% better than the open circuit mode of operation. We suggest and describe an integrated AD-MES system, by installing MES in the reject water loop, as a novel approach to improve the efficiency and productivity of existing waste/wastewater treatment plants.
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- 2019