| Grant number: | 16/14377-7 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor |
| Start date: | November 01, 2016 |
| End date: | October 31, 2017 |
| Field of knowledge: | Interdisciplinary Subjects |
| Principal Investigator: | Ernesto Rafael Gonzalez |
| Grantee: | Melida Del Pilar Anzola Rojas |
| Supervisor: | Deepak Pant |
| Host Institution: | Instituto de Química de São Carlos (IQSC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil |
| Institution abroad: | Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Belgium |
| Associated to the scholarship: | 14/25366-0 - Using a hybrid fermentative/microbial electrolysis cell system to enhance hydrogen production from sugarcane vinasse, BP.PD |
Abstract Anaerobic digestion has been considered as an attractive method to stabilize the organic matter from wastewater, since it recovers sustainable energy, such as H2 and other products of chemical interest. However, although the theoretical stoichiometric potential is 12 mol H2 mol-1, the energy recovery is low and the yield is thermodynamically limited to 4 mol H2 per mol of glucose. In this sense, a microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) that is an emerging type of bioelectrochemical system (BES), has been used to overcome such a thermodynamic limit, wherein the redox metabolism is driven by a small input energy. Therefore, since the postdoc research project proposes the application of a hybrid fermentative/MEC system, this BEPE project includes the learning about MEC: assembly and evaluation of performance. To this end, experiments will be carried out in a known MEC, using synthetic acid effluent and a varying the potential range between 0.9 to 0.2 V. (AU) | |
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