Advances in Environmental Electrochemistry

1st Edition - March 21, 2024
Editors: Dipak Ashok Jadhav, Manaswini Behera, Surajbhan Sevda, Maulin P. Shah
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 8 2 0 - 6
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Advances in Environmental Electrochemistry provides a solid foundation in the basics of environmental electrochemistry, including redox reactions for contaminant removal, bio-electrochemical systems, electrochemical reactor design and the various electrochemistry-based techniques for practical wastewater degradation, environmental remediation and bioenergy recovery from waste. Advanced technologies acting as key indicators for addressing the various aspects of environmental electrochemistry are covered as well as comparisons to conventional methods and potential ways forward to their application in bioremediation technology. This book will be of interest to chemical engineers, environmental engineers, and all those interested in environmental biotechnology, bio-electrochemical systems, electrochemical sensors, advanced oxidation processes, biological wastewater treatment, and waste to energy recovery.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
List of contributors
Biography
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1. Basics and fundamentals of the mechanisms of electrochemical reactors
1. Introduction
2. Examining the electrolytic cell
3. Looking to more realistic conditions
4. Hydrodynamic conditions
5. Remarks
Chapter 2. Recent advancements and applications of environmental electrochemistry
1. Introduction
2. Fundamentals of electrooxidation
3. Recent advances in electrode materials and designs in electrochemical oxidation
4. Coupling EO with other advanced oxidation processes
5. Opportunities of EO for treatment of wastewater
6. Challenges and limitations of EO and related processes
7. Conclusion remarks
Chapter 3. Microbial electrolysis cells for effective biohydrogen biogenesis from biowastes
1. Introduction
2. MEC for biohydrogen production from biowastes
3. Potential advantages and drawbacks of MEC-associated biohydrogen production
4. Production of biohydrogen is improved using MEC as biowaste feedstock
5. Conclusion
Chapter 4. Electrochemical reduction of heavy metals from industrial effluents
1. Introduction
2. Source of heavy metals in industrial effluents
3. Heavy metals reduction method
4. Mechanism of electrochemical reactors
5. Electrochemical metal recovery techniques
6. Production of by-products by bioelectrochemical and photoelectrochemical recovery
7. Electrochemical process modeling and simulation
8. Scope of electrochemical industries
9. Treatment of industrial effluents
10. Process economy
11. Conclusions
Chapter 5. Scaling-up of bioelectrochemical process for simultaneous wastewater treatment and energy extraction
1. Overview of the technology
2. Types of MFC
3. Factors affecting the performance of MFC
4. Scaling-up of MFC
5. Stacking as a means for upscaling
6. Manufacturing and cost analysis
7. Environmental aspects, challenges, and future perspective
8. Conclusion
Chapter 6. Recent advancement and application of environmental electrochemistry
1. Introduction
2. Electrochemistry
3. Electrochemical technology
4. Application of electrochemical technologies
5. Bioelectrochemical system
6. Types of bioelectrochemical system
7. Applications of BES
8. Advantages and drawbacks
9. Conclusion
Chapter 7. Microbial electrosynthesis for synthesis of volatile fatty acids and industrial chemicals from wastewater
1. Introduction
2. Microbial catalyst for electrosynthesis
3. Wastewater substrate
4. Metabolic pathways for product synthesis
5. Genetically enhanced microbial system
6. Production of value-added chemicals from wastewater
7. Integration of microbial electrochemical systems with other advanced technologies
8. Conclusion and future perspectives
Chapter 8. Advancements in the application of bioelectrochemical systems–based sensors
1. Background
2. Reason for selection of BES in powering sensors
3. BES-powered sensors
4. MFC itself as the biosensor
5. Future scopes
6. Conclusion
Chapter 9. Sustainability of microbial carbon capture cells for carbon sequestration and biomass generation
1. Introduction
2. Technology overview
3. Design and fabrication guidance
4. Photosynthetic microalgae used in BES
5. Applications of microbial carbon capture cell
6. Bottlenecks and future prospective
7. Conclusion
Chapter 10. Desalination through microbial desalination cells and remediation of organic pollutants
1. Introduction
2. Microbial desalination cell: Working principle
3. Types of microbial desalination cells
4. Bioremediation of organic pollutants using MDC
5. Future prospects
6. Conclusion
Chapter 11. Bioelectrochemical reduction of heavy metals from industrial effluents
1. Introduction
2. Heavy metals in aquatic environment
3. Bioelectrochemical system
4. Metal removal mechanisms in bioelectrochemical system
5. Metal removal using abiotic cathode electrodes
6. Metal removal using biocathode electrodes
7. Removal of heavy metals from industrial wastewater using bioelectrochemical system
8. Practical implications and prospects
9. Conclusion
Chapter 12. Microbial electrosynthesis of fatty acids and industrial chemicals through carbon sequestration
1. Introduction
2. Biocatalyst employed in microbial electrosynthesis
3. Products recovered via microbial electrosynthesis
4. Product purification strategies
5. Scale-up attempts of MES
6. Technoeconomic and life cycle assessment
7. Summary and future perspective
Chapter 13. Application of the microbial carbon capture cells for CO2 sequestration
1. Introduction
2. Microbial carbon capture cell
3. Working principle of microbial carbon capture cell
4. Types of microbial carbon capture cell
5. Carbon sequestration using microbial carbon capture cells
6. Biomass generation using microbial carbon capture cell
7. Future prospects
8. Conclusion
Chapter 14. Role of electrochemistry and electrochemical technologies for environmental bioremediation
1. Introduction
2. Electrochemical technologies
3. Bioelectrochemical technologies
4. Bioelectrochemical approaches for organic remediation
5. Exoelectrogenic microorganisms
6. Conclusions and prospects
Index

Dipak Ashok Jadhav

Dipak Ashok Jadhav is a research professor at the Korea Maritime and Ocean University, Busan, South Korea. His research interests lie in microbial fuel cells, bioelectrochemical systems, sanitation, bioenergy research, water management, and waste-to-energy. He has received several prestigious awards and fellowship including Young Technological Innovation Award (GYTI), Young Engineers Award, Promising Engineers Award, Swachthon Award from Ministry, DAAD fellowship, Silver medal for post graduate studies at IIT Kharagpur, etc. His research area is microbial fuel cell, Bioelectrochemical system, Sanitation, Bioenergy research, Water management, Waste to Energy recovery. To his credits, there are over 33 papers in various peer-reviewed SCI journals including Renewable and Sustainable energy reviews, Bioresource Technology, Energy, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, etc. and also authored 19 book chapters. He has presented the work at national and international conferences in the area of bioelectrochemical system and bioenergy. He is also serving as editorial board member /reviewers for International Journals and member for several scientific societies in the field of microbial fuel cell and bioenergy research. He is also editor for book on microbial electrochemical system.

Affiliations and expertise

Research Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering, Korea Maritime

Manaswini Behera

Dr. Manaswini Behera is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering in the School of Infrastructure, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar. She has received her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and master’s degree in environmental engineering and management from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. She has received prestigious award like young scientist award. She is the associated editor of the ASCE Journal of Hazardous, Toxic and radioactive Waste. She has published peer reviewed 30 journal papers and 28 international conference presentations and proceedings and 14 refereed book chapters. Her area of research is bioenergy recovery during treatment of industrial wastewater and solid waste in microbial fuel cell, grey water treatment and reuse, developments of separators for bio-electrochemical systems. She has successfully completed three sponsored research projects. She is the principal investigator for the ongoing project, SARASWATI-2.0 (INR 12 million) jointly funded by European Union and Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. She is at present supervising five research scholars. She is also editor for the book Microconstituents in the environment: occurrence, fate, removal and management to be published by John Wiley & Sons.

Affiliations and expertise

Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering in the School of Infrastructure, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar

Surajbhan Sevda

Dr. Surajbhan Sevda, completed Doctoral Degree in 2013 from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India. Prior to this, he was a technical officer (research scientist) at IIT Guwahati, India. He has published more than 28 articles in scientific journals and book chapters. He received his Bachelor of Engineering in Biotechnology and Master of Technology in fermentation technology from University of Rajasthan and Institute of Chemical Technology (formerly known as UDCT), University of Mumbai, India, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. He was a visiting scientist at University of Calgary, Canada in 2018. His research experience lies in the bioreactor design, modelling of microbial growth, biofuels, and bioenergy, life cycle analysis (LCA), metal recovery, biosensor development, green chemistry, microbial electrosynthesis, enzyme and antibiotic production.

Affiliations and expertise

Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India

Maulin P. Shah

Dr. Maulin P. Shah is Chief Scientist and Head of the Industrial Wastewater Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India. His work focuses on the impact of industrial pollution on the microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent analysis. His major work involves isolation, screening, identification, and genetically engineering high-impact microbes for the degradation of hazardous materials. His research interests include biological wastewater treatment, environmental microbiology, biodegradation, bioremediation, and phytoremediation of environmental pollutants from industrial wastewaters.

Affiliations and expertise

Chief Scientist and Head, Industrial Waste Water Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India