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Life cycle assessment of microbial fuel cell

dc.contributor.author Hou, Junjie
dc.contributor.corporatename University of Georgia. College of Engineering en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2013-07-25T21:54:07Z
dc.date.available 2013-07-25T21:54:07Z
dc.date.issued 2013-04
dc.description Proceedings of the 2013 Georgia Water Resources Conference, April 10-11, 2013, Athens, Georgia. en_US
dc.description.abstract Wastewater treatment industry is energy intensive. Large amount of environmental burden was brought due to the energy use for the wastewatertreatment. Much attention has been focused on bioelectrochemical systems in recent years, since these systems can use wastewater as a renewable resource for the production of energy, and byproducts. One of the bioelectrochemical systems is called MFC (microbial Fuel Cell), it uses bacterial metabolism to produce electrical current by breaking down a wide range organic substrates exist in the wastewater, the wastewater after treated had lower nitrate and TSS levels when compared with traditional aeration wastewater treatment. Since MFC technology can produce electricity while operation and provide better quality effluent, it can be treated as a promising alternative to traditional wastewater treatment. A comprehensive evaluation of the process is needed to analysis its environmental performance. Life cycle assessment is a systematic method which can provide a holistic picture on the overall impact of the system and allows the comparison between different systems on environmental grounds. It avoid burden – shifting, which means transfer the environment impact from one stage to another. Only life cycle assessment can avoid the burden shifting. Here, we did a LCA of MFC using food waste input, analyzing its overall environmental impact, and comparing MFC’s performances with traditional aeration treatment. This analyze provides guidelines for MFC process design and optimization, and help people to have a better understanding of its environmental performance compared with traditional aeration treatment. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship Sponsored by: Georgia Environmental Protection Division; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service; Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Water Resources Institute; The University of Georgia, Water Resources Faculty. en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibility This book was published by Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2152. The views and statements advanced in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not represent official views or policies of The University of Georgia, the Georgia Water Research Institute as authorized by the Water Research Institutes Authorization Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-307) or the other conference sponsors. en_US
dc.embargo.terms null en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/48556
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries GWRI2013. Groundwater, water management and data en_US
dc.subject Water resources management en_US
dc.subject Wastewater treatment en_US
dc.title Life cycle assessment of microbial fuel cell en_US
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Proceedings
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local.contributor.corporatename Georgia Water Resources Institute
local.contributor.corporatename School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
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