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A novel operational strategy to enhance wastewater treatment with dual-anode assembled microbial desalination cell
Fubin Liu1, Lisheng Wang1, Kuichang Zuo1
1State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China.
Abstract:
This study introduced a novel dual-anode assembled microbial desalination cell to enhance the performance of domestic wastewater treatment. Two parallel units were fabricated with two anodes and one cathode, which is separated by two ion exchange membrane stacks. A hollow fiber membrane module was inserted in the cathode to intercept suspended solids and microbes. Based on preliminary experiments where synthetic wastewater was utilized, anode hydraulic retention time of 10 h and cathode aeration rate of 0.16 m3/h were chosen as the operating conditions. By innovatively connecting four membrane stacks in cascades, which multiplied flow rate without adding extra circulation pumps, the desalination rate of the system was improved 214.8% compared with single membrane stack mode. When modified domestic wastewater was applied, the average removal efficiencies of chemical oxygen demand, ammonia nitrogen, total nitrogen and total phosphorous reached 96.9%, 99.0%, 98.0% and 98.3%, respectively.
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