Ammonium removal from synthetic wastewater promoted by current generation and water flux in an osmotic microbial fuel cell
By Qin, Mohan; Hynes, Erin A.; Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim M.; He, Zhen
Published in Journal of Cleaner Production
2017
Abstract
Abstract Recovering useful resources from wastes represents a new approach of clean production with significant environmental and economic benefits. Ammonium nitrogen, which is an important inorganic contaminant and also a resource for fertilizer, can be removed and recovered from wastewater. As the first step of recovery, ammonium removal was successfully demonstrated in this study by using an innovative treatment system - osmotic microbial fuel cell (OsMFC). This OsMFC achieved the removal efficiency of 80.1