Application of Saccharomyces cerevisae for enhance electricity generation during domestic wastewater treatment via microbial fuel cell technology

3^rd International Conference on Hydrology & Meteorology

September 15-16, 2014 Hyderabad International Convention Centre, India

Abhilasha S Mathuriya

Accepted Abstracts: Hydrol Current Res

Abstract :

The need for viable, cost-effective and energy-efficient solutions for wastewater treatment remains an enduring concern. Microbial Fuel Cell is among those elegant solutions. Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is an electrochemical system that converts chemical energy of organic compounds viz. pure compounds or wastewater into electricity through the catalytic activities of microorganisms. MFCs are a promising method for wastewater treatment due to removal of contaminants from wastewater while at the same time producing electrical power. The wastewater, which is a source of enumerable extremophilic microbial flora, is used as inoculum in many recent studies. But wastewater conditioning with some additional efficient microorganisms can accelerate the performance of microbial fuel cell. In present contribution, comparative analysis was made by treating the domestic wastewater by foreign microbial consortia (Saccharomyces cerevisae) with raw wastewater containing only natural habitat microbes, already present in wastewater. It was observed that Saccharomyces cerevisae remarkably enhanced the performance. Up to 324 mW/m2 power density and 98.5 per cent of chemical oxygen demand removal was obtained during 30 days of operation.

Biography :

Abhilasha S Mathuriya has completed her MTech from HBTI Kanpur and PhD (Engg.) in Microbial Fuel Cells from UP Technical University India. She always been brilliant scholar and held high positions in college and University merit list. She is Dy. Head, Biotechnology at Anand Engineering College, Agra (under flagship of SGI- Largest educational group of northern India). She has published 17 papers in high impact factor journals, has authored 5 books and has 1 patent. She is serving as member of editorial board of two international journals and is member of reviewer board of 17 journals (Springer, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis etc.)