Development in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes

Industrial wastewater contains a large variety of compounds, such as hazardous organic pollutants, heavy metals, salts and nutrients, which makes its treatment challenging. On the other hand, the sewage treatment with existing technologies is not cost-effective due to high energy demand and contributes to greenhouse gas emission. Thus, the use of conventional water treatment methods is neither sustainable nor always effective. In this sense, BESs has emerged as a promising technology to treat complex industrial wastewater with a sustainable manner. Development in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes: Bioelectrochemical Systems for Wastewater Management analyses and discusses the potential of microbial and electrochemical based hybrid processes for the treatment of complex industrial wastewater along with the recovery of valuable compounds and water reutilization. The most significant advantages of BES are high effectiveness, low toxicity, gentle operation conditions, environmentally friendly treatment without sludge accumulation and energy conservation. Bioelectrochemical systems (BES) are emerging as an exciting platform to convert chemical energy of organic wastes into electricity or hydrogen or value-added chemical commodities. In addition, recent and future trends in BES are highlighted.

1. Microalgal mediated bioelectricity generation and concomitant value-added products recovery from wastewater treatment in the bioelectrochemical system: Current status 2. Algal Microbial Fuel Cell: An innovative and accessible approach 3. Key Role of Microorganisms in Industrial Wastewater Treatment 4. Membrane Integrated BES for Wastewater Reclamation 5. Reuse of treated wastewater through emerging technologies 6. Bio-electrochemical systems: Understanding Basics and overcoming challenges 7. Emerging trends of Cyanobacteria based Microbial fuel cells as an alternative energy source 8. Bioelectrochemical systems: Basic concepts and Types 9. Anode modification: An approach to improve power generation in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) 10. Influence of Operational Parameters on the Performance of Microbial Fuel Cells 11. Development of bioelectrochemical systems integrated nanocomposite membranes for Wastewater management 12. Industrial wastewater treatment using bioelectrochemical systems and potential for energy recovery 13. The Charge of the Blue-Green Batteries: Cyanobacteria-based Microbial Fuel Cells as a Green Technology of the Future 14. Microbes and Wastewater treatment 15. Challenges in scale-up of microbial electrosynthesis for wastewater treatment