PMID- 29154004
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20181029
LR  - 20181029
IS  - 1095-8630 (Electronic)
IS  - 0301-4797 (Linking)
VI  - 207
DP  - 2018 Feb 1
TI  - Influence of glass wool as separator on bioelectricity generation in a 
      constructed wetland-microbial fuel cell.
PG  - 116-123
LID - S0301-4797(17)31110-6 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.11.035 [doi]
AB  - To figure out the impact of the separator on the electrical performance of the 
      newly established constructed wetland-microbial fuel cell (CW-MFC), two parallel 
      upflow CW-MFC systems, with and without glass wool (GW), were set up in this 
      study. System performances in terms of bioelectricity production were monitored 
      for more than 4 months. Results showed that the highest voltage was achieved in 
      non-separator (NS) system (465.7 +/- 4.2 mV with electrode spacing of 5 cm), which 
      is 48.9% higher than the highest value generated in GW system (312 +/- 7.0 mV with 
      electrode spacing of 2 cm). The highest power density was produced in NS system 
      (66.22 mW/m(2)), which is 3.9 times higher than the value in GW system 
      (17.14 mW/m(2)). The diffusion of oxygen from the open air was greatly hindered 
      by the biofilm formed under the cathode. This kind of biofilm can be severed as 
      the "microbial separator", playing the same role in a real separator.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Xu, Lei
AU  - Xu L
AD  - Dooge Centre for Water Resources Research, School of Civil Engineering, 
      University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. Electronic address: 
      lei.xu@ucdconnect.ie.
FAU - Zhao, Yaqian
AU  - Zhao Y
AD  - Dooge Centre for Water Resources Research, School of Civil Engineering, 
      University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland; Institute of Water 
      Resources and Hydro-electric Engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an 
      710048, Shaanxi, PR China.
FAU - Tang, Cheng
AU  - Tang C
AD  - Dooge Centre for Water Resources Research, School of Civil Engineering, 
      University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
FAU - Doherty, Liam
AU  - Doherty L
AD  - Dooge Centre for Water Resources Research, School of Civil Engineering, 
      University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20171116
PL  - England
TA  - J Environ Manage
JT  - Journal of environmental management
JID - 0401664
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - *Bioelectric Energy Sources
MH  - Electricity
MH  - Electrodes
MH  - Glass
MH  - *Wetlands
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Bioelectricity
OT  - Constructed wetland
OT  - Glass wool
OT  - Microbial fuel cell
OT  - Microbial separator
EDAT- 2017/11/21 06:00
MHDA- 2018/10/30 06:00
CRDT- 2017/11/21 06:00
PHST- 2017/04/28 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/11/09 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2017/11/12 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2017/11/21 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/10/30 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/11/21 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0301-4797(17)31110-6 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.11.035 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Environ Manage. 2018 Feb 1;207:116-123. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.11.035. 
      Epub 2017 Nov 16.