TY - JOUR 
A1 - Addi, Hasna
AU - Mateo Ramírez, Francisco
AU - Ortiz Martínez, Víctor Manuel
AU - Salar García, María José
AU - Hernández Fernández, Francisco José
AU - Pérez-de-los-Ríos, Antonia
AU - Godínez Seoane, Carlos
AU - Lotfi, El Mostapha
AU - Mahi, Mohammed El
AU - Lozano Blanco, Luis Javier
T1 - Treatment of mineral oil refinery wastewater in microbial fuel cells using ionic liquid based separators
Y1 - 2018
SN - 2076-3417
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10317/7756
AB - Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are an environmentally friendly technology that can recover electricity directly from several wastes at ambient temperatures. This work explores the use of mineral oil refinery wastewater as feedstock in single-chamber air-cathode MFC devices. A polymer inclusion membrane based on the ionic liquid methyltrioctylammonium chloride, [MTOA+][Cl−], at a concentration of 70% w/w, was used as separator, showing a good efficiency in power production and chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal. The power and the chemical oxygen demand removal reached values of 45 mW/m3 and over 80%, respectively. The evolution of other parameters of the wastewater including nitrites, phosphates and sulphates were also studied. Kjeldahl nitrogen and sulphates were significantly reduced during MFC operation. The results show that mineral oil refinery wastewater can be used as feedstock in air breathing cathode-microbial fuel cells based on polymer ionic liquid inclusion membranes. This configuration could represent a good alternative for wastewater depuration while producing energy during the process
KW - Ingeniería Química
KW - Microbial fuel cell
KW - Mineral oil refinery wastewater
KW - Ionic liquid
KW - Polymer inclusion membrane
KW - Water depuration
KW - Electricity production
KW - 3303 Ingeniería Y tecnología química
LA - eng
PB - MDPI
ER -