Abstract
A microbial fuel cell with 4-CP as oxidant was established to investigate the feasibility of 4-CP dechlorination in the cathodic chamber of MFC. It demonstrated good performance on electricity generation with P max 12.4 mW/m2 and CE 22.7%. Besides, 60 mg/L 4-CP could be completely dechlorinated in 45 h in the MFC, and 4-CP dechlorination process and electricity generation process had obvious synergistic effect.
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Gu, H., Zhang, X., Li, Z. et al. Studies on treatment of chlorophenol-containing wastewater by microbial fuel cell. Chin. Sci. Bull. 52, 3448–3451 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-007-0503-7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-007-0503-7