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New application of microbial fuel cell-based biosensor for monitoring the quality of actual potato chips’ processing wastewater

Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy volume 1, pages 227–235 (2019)Cite this article

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Abstract

In this study, a dual-chamber microbial fuel cell (MFC) fed with actual potato chips’ processing wastewater (PCPW) was tested as a biosensor. The performance of MFC-based biosensor was evaluated in terms of the current measurement range, toxicity detection and sensitivity, and the operational stability. The results revealed that the MFC can simply be converted to an online biosensor unit to detect the harmful effect of suspended solids and acidic content in the actual PCPW on the anodic attached biofilm and the values of the generated current as well. A notable decrease in the current values was observed indicating the adverse effects of the harmful matters in the PCPW fed to the biosensor unit. The results proposed a competition between the harmful components and the favorable substrate in binding to the redox complex. An excellent fitting was obtained between the experimental and predicted results by \( I_{{K_{m} }} \) model with determination coefficient (R2) and mean-square-error values of 0.927 and 0.363, respectively. Additionally, a new approach was developed based on direct measurement of actual field data to replace the conventional statistical methods.

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The authors sincerely acknowledge the staff of the Salah Al-din Bakery & Pastry factory in Tikrit city, Iraq for being helpful and supportive in providing the actual samples of wastewater. Also, the authors are thankful to the Department of Environmental Engineering at University of Baghdad for the technical support.

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Radeef, A.Y., Ismail, Z.Z. New application of microbial fuel cell-based biosensor for monitoring the quality of actual potato chips’ processing wastewater. Waste Dispos. Sustain. Energy 1, 227–235 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42768-019-00017-9

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Keywords

  • Microbial fuel cell
  • Biosensor
  • Modeling
  • Potato chips processing wastewater
  • Biodegradation