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Table 10.1   Detailed list of wastewaters studied in BES for their treatment
Wastewater
MFC configuration
Removal effi-
ciency (%)
Reference
Highly biodegradable wastewater
Domestic wastewater
Single chamber
66.7
Venkata Mohan et al. 2009a
Domestic wastewater
Double chamber
85
Jiang et al. 2012
Dairy wastewater
Single chamber
95.5
Venkata Mohan et al. 2010a
Dairy wastewater
Double chamber
90
Elakayya and Matheswaran
2013
Canteen based food waste
Single chamber
65
Goud et al. 2011
Chocolate Industry wastewater
Single chamber
95.5
Patil et al. 2009
Cereal wastewater
Double chamber
95
Oh et al. 2005
Potato processing wastewater
Three compartment
tubular
62
Durruty et al. 2012
Rice mill wastewater
Double chamber
-
Behera et al. 2010
Cheese wastewater
Two chamber
59ᄆ9.3
Kelly and He 2014b
Cattle dung
Single chamber
-
Zhao et al. 2012
Dairy Manure
Three chamber
39.8 #
Zhang et al. 2012
Low biodegradable wastewater
Pharmaceutical wastewater
Single chamber
85.8
Velvizhi and Venkata Mohan
2011
Paper recycling wastewater
Single chamber
51
Huang and Logan 2008
Swine waste
Single chamber
86
Min et al. 2005
Brewery wastewater
Single chamber
87
Feng et al. 2008
37 #
Wheat straw hydrolysate
Double chamber
Zhang et al. 2009
Distillery wastewater
Single chamber
72.8
Mohanakrishna et al. 2010a
Meat packing wastewater
Single chamber
87*
Heilmann and Logan 2006
Molasses wastewater
Single chamber cuboid
MFC
53.2
Zhang et al. 2010
Molasses wastewater
Single chamber
59
Sevda et al. 2013
Vegetable wastewater
Single chamber
62.9
Venkata Mohan et al. 2010b
Composite chemical
Single chamber
66
Venkata Mohan et al. 2009b
20 #
Cassava mill wastewater
Single chamber
Kaewkannetra et al. 2011
Slaughter house wastewater
Dual chamber
93
Katuri et al. 2012
Penicillin wastewater
Single chamber
90
Wen et al. 2011
Palm oil mill effluent
Two chamber
96.5
Cheng et al. 2010
Integration with fermentation process
Mixed volatile fatty acids
Double chamber
39
Freguia et al. 2010
Fermented vegetable waste
Single chamber
80
Mohanakrishna et al. 2010b
Anaerobic food waste leachate
Single chamber
91
Li et al. 2013
Primary effluent
Single chamber
84
Yang et al. 2013
Fermented sludge
Single chamber
94
Yang et al. 2013
Dark fermentation effluent
Single chamber
72
ElMekawy et al. 2014
#Coulumbic efficiency; *Removal based on BOD
tillery and pharmaceutical wastewater is one of
the critical aspects of wastewater but BES can
easily remove colour at anode. Similarly, toxic
halogens and other hydrocarbons are recalcitrant
to aerobic remediation but they also can serve as
electron acceptors in BES under anaerobic respi-
ration. Solid wastes such as kitchen waste, food
waste, vegetable waste, etc. were also can be uti-
lized by BES without higher dilutions for the effi-
cient treatment and power generation. Similarly,
lignocellulosic biomass (Ren et al. 2007 ; Wang
et al. 2009 ), dye wastewater (Sun et al. 2009 ),
 
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