Butterworth-Heinemann Integrated Microbial Fuel Cells for Wastewater Treatment

Current wastewater treatment technologies are not sustainable simply due to their high operational costs and process inefficiency. Integrated Microbial Fuel Cells for Wastewater Treatment is intended for professionals who are searching for an innovative method to improve the efficiencies of wastewater treatment processes by exploiting the potential of Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) technology. The book is broadly divided into four sections. It begins with an overview of the "state of the art" bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) as well as the fundamentals of MFC technology and its potential to enhance wastewater treatment efficiencies and reduce electricity generation cost. In section two, discusses the integration, installation, and optimization of MFC into conventional wastewater treatment processes such as activated sludge process, lagoons, constructed wetlands, and membrane bioreactors. Section three outlines integrations of MFCs into other wastewater processes. The final section provides explorative studies of MFC integrated systems for large scale wastewater treatment and the challenges which are inherent in the upscaling process. Review Bridges the gap between current research and real field applications in the use of microbial fuel cells for wastewater treatment About the Author Dr. Rouzbeh Abbassi has a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering. He obtained his doctoral degree in Environmental Engineering from Memorial University, Canada. He spent four years as postdoctoral Research Fellow at Memorial University and Princeton University, USA focusing on integrating water/wastewater treatment processes with risk models to predict the environmental impact of these processes. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental, Safety and Risk Engineering at the School of Engineering at Macquarie University. Dr. Asheesh K. Yadav is working as Principal Scientist at CSIR- Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar. He did M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences and M.Tech. in Environmental Science and Engineering. He earned a doctoral degree from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India and did his Postdoctoral Research from Princeton University, USA. He has worked as Indo-American Research Professor at Princeton University, Princeton, USA; Erasmus Mundus Scholar (European Union) at various Universities in Germany, Poland, and Sweden. He has an adjunct position at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Faisal Khan is a Professor and the Canada Research Chair (Tier I) of Offshore Safety and Risk Engineering. He is the founder of the Centre for Risk Integrity and Safety and Engineering (C-RISE), and Director Designate of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center. His areas of research interest include offshore safety and risk engineering, inherent safety, risk management, and risk-based integrity assessment and management. He is actively involved with multinational oil and gas industries on the issue of safety and asset integrity. In 2006, he spent eight months as a risk and integrity expert with Lloyd’s Register, a risk management organization in UK. He also served as the Safety and Risk Advisor to Government of Newfoundland, Canada. He continues to serve as a subject matter expert to many organisations that include Lloyd’s Register EMEA, SBM Modco, Intecsea, Technip, and Qatar-gas. In 2008-10, he visited Qatar University and Qatar-gas LNG Company as the Process Safety and Risk Management Research Chair. In 2012-14 he served as a Visiting Professor of Offshore and Marine Engineering at Australian Maritime College (AMC), University of Tasmania, Australia where he led the development of offshore safety and risk engineering group and the initiative of global engagements with many international institutions. He is the recipient of President Outstanding Research Award of 2012-13 at Memorial University, CSChE National Aw