Microbial fuel cells treat micro-scale industrial and agriculture waste

Micro and small enterprises that generate waste with an organic load beyond that accepted for disposal to sewers can now reduce effluent storage and disposal costs by up to 70 %. This EU-developed technology also enables energy recovery from the waste to set against production costs.

Disposal of organic waste streams is a major hurdle to the productivity and profitability of the EU’s agri-food and drink processing industries (a-FDPI). To-date, there is no feasible micro-scale technology for the safe disposal of organic waste or to recover some of the 288 Terawatt-hours of potential energy that exists in the a-FDPI sector as hydrogen/methane rich biogas.

Further details: Microbial fuel cells treat micro-scale industrial and agriculture waste