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ReviewBioengineered2022

Microbial electrolysis: a promising approach for treatment and resource recovery from industrial wastewater.

Yamini Koul, Viralkunvar Devda, Sunita Varjani, Wenshan Guo, Huu Hao Ngo, Mohammad J Taherzadeh, Jo-Shu Chang, Jonathan W C Wong, Muhammad Bilal, Sang-Hyoun Kim and 2 more

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Review in Bioengineered, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. MOF-Derived Semiconductor Materials for Wastewater-Driven Energy Production and Environmental Remediation.Water environment research : a research publication of the Water Environment Federation · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Yamini KoulParyavaran Bhavan, Gujarat Pollution Control Board, Gandhinagar, India.
Viralkunvar DevdaParyavaran Bhavan, Gujarat Pollution Control Board, Gandhinagar, India.
Sunita VarjaniParyavaran Bhavan, Gujarat Pollution Control Board, Gandhinagar, India.ORCID 0000-0001-6966-7768
Wenshan GuoCentre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Huu Hao NgoCentre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Mohammad J TaherzadehSwedish Centre for Resource Recovery, University of Borås, Borås, Sweden.
Jo-Shu ChangDepartment of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
Jonathan W C WongInstitute of Bioresource and Agriculture and Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hksar, Hong Kong.ORCID 0000-0003-0159-259X
Muhammad BilalSchool of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5388-3183
Sang-Hyoun KimSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Xuan-Thanh BuiFaculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (Hcmut), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Roberto Parra-SaldívarEscuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias- Centro de Biotecnología-FEMSA, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-4958-5797

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wastewater is one of the most common by-products of almost every industrial process. Treatment of wastewater alone, before disposal, necessitates an excess of energy. Environmental concerns over the use of fossil fuels as a source of energy have prompted a surge in demand for alternative energy sources and the development of sophisticated procedures to extract energy from unconventional sources. Treatment of municipal and industrial wastewater alone accounts for about 3% of global electricity use while the amount of energy embedded in the waste is at least 2-4 times greater than the energy required to treat the same effluent. The microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) is one of the most efficient technologies for waste-to-product conversion that uses electrochemically active bacteria to convert organic matter into hydrogen or a variety of by-products without polluting the environment. This paper highlights existing obstacles and future potential in the integration of Microbial Electrolysis Cell with other processes like anaerobic digestion coupled system, anaerobic membrane bioreactor and thermoelectric micro converter.

Indexed as

ElectrolysisWastewaterBacteriaBioreactorsHydrogenWaste Disposal, FluidHydrogenWastewateranaerobic digestionelectrochemical technologyenvironmental sustainabilityIndustrial effluentsresources

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PMID35297316
PMCPMC9161901

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