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Non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory pharmaceutical wastewater treatment using a two‐chambered microbial fuel cell
Author(s) -
Amari Samar,
Boshrouyeh Ghandashtani Mohammad
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
water and environment journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1747-6593
pISSN - 1747-6585
DOI - 10.1111/wej.12476
Subject(s) - microbial fuel cell , chemical oxygen demand , wastewater , cathode , chemistry , diclofenac sodium , sewage treatment , pulp and paper industry , chromatography , environmental chemistry , nuclear chemistry , anode , environmental engineering , environmental science , electrode , engineering
The two‐chambered microbial fuel cell (MFC) was designed and used for studying the efficiency of the real wastewater treatment from a non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory pharmaceutical plant as well as from synthetic wastewater containing diclofenac sodium (DS). The removal of the contaminants was expressed regarding chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal, as measured by spectrophotometry experiments. Moreover, the effect of two different types of the cathode on current characteristics and COD removal was investigated. This research showed that the Pt‐coated Ti cathode could lead to higher efficiency of both power density and COD removal. In this case, the results indicated that the maximum power density ( P max ) was 20.5 and 6.5 W/m 3 and the maximum COD removal was 93 and 78% for MFCs using real and synthetic wastewater, respectively.