Carlo Santoro Carlo.Santoro@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Bio-Energy
Urine in bioelectrochemical systems: An overall review
Santoro, Carlo; Garcia, Maria Jose Salar; Walter, Xavier Alexis; You, Jiseon; Theodosiou, Pavlina; Gajda, Iwona; Obata, Oluwatosin; Winfield, Jonathan; Greenman, John; Ieropoulos, Ioannis
Authors
Maria Jose Salar Garcia
Alexis Walter Xavier.Walter@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow
Jiseon You Jiseon.You@uwe.ac.uk
Research Fellow - Bristol BioEnergy Centre
Pavlina Theodosiou Pavlina.Theodosiou@uwe.ac.uk
Research Associate in Bristol BioEnergy Centre
Iwona Serruys Iwona.Gajda@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow
Oluwatosin Obata
Jonathan Winfield Jonathan.Winfield@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Bio-Energy
John Greenman John.Greenman@uwe.ac.uk
Yannis Ieropoulos Ioannis2.Ieropoulos@uwe.ac.uk
Professor in Bioenergy & Director of B-B
Abstract
In recent years, human urine has been successfully used as an electrolyte and organic substrate in bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) mainly due of its unique properties. Urine contains organic compounds that can be utilised as a fuel for energy recovery in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and it has high nutrient concentrations including nitrogen and phosphorous that can be concentrated and recovered in microbial electrosynthesis cells and microbial concentration cells. Moreover, human urine has high solution conductivity, which reduces the ohmic losses of these systems, improving BES output. This review describes the most recent advances in BESs utilising urine. Properties of neat human urine used in state‐of‐the‐art MFCs are described from basic to pilot‐scale and real implementation. Utilisation of urine in other bioelectrochemical systems for nutrient recovery is also discussed including proofs of concept to scale up systems.
Citation
Santoro, C., Garcia, M. J. S., Walter, X. A., You, J., Theodosiou, P., Gajda, I., …Ieropoulos, I. (2020). Urine in bioelectrochemical systems: An overall review. ChemElectroChem, 7(6), 1312-1331. https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.201901995
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Feb 8, 2020 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 6, 2020 |
Publication Date | Mar 16, 2020 |
Deposit Date | Jul 27, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 28, 2020 |
Journal | ChemElectroChem |
Electronic ISSN | 2196-0216 |
Publisher | Wiley |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 7 |
Issue | 6 |
Pages | 1312-1331 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.201901995 |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6388023 |
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