Implementation of biological fuel cells in treating pharmaceutical effluents
- Title
- Implementation of biological fuel cells in treating pharmaceutical effluents
- Creator
- Chandrashekhar P.; Harshitha G.K.; Ramanjinappa R.; Manjula K.R.; Mayegowda S.B.
- Description
- Mankind suffers from a wide variety of infections, diseases, and lifestyle problems. To overcome, several industries worldwide aim to achieve their main objective as the synthesis of an enormous number of diverse drugs that neutralize problems. With the production of tones-to-tones pharmaceutical products these industries also generate extreme good amount of waste, pharmaceutical waste which is now concerned as it contains massive quantity of high organic load of toxic and non-toxic elements. However, the industrial sector adopts anaerobic wastewater treatment strategies to overcome this. As pharmaceutical waste owes highly varied and complexed recalcitrant elements in their complex drug molecules it is not ideal to treat only with anaerobic treatment. Hence, several biotreatments are becoming popularized because they employ MFCs, which are known for the generation of electricity directly from biodegradable organic compounds. The new bio electrochemical technology promises to be inexpensive in comparison to conventional ones. MFC holds the process of both oxidation and reduction permitting the degradation of a wide range of compounds to easily degradable and generates concurrent renewable energy. 2022 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
- Source
- Microbial Fuel Cell: Electricity Generation and Environmental Remediation, pp. 193-223.
- Date
- 2022-01-01
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
- Subject
- Bio electrochemical technology; Biofilms; Degradation; Microbial fuel cells; Recalcitrant elements; Renewable energy
- Coverage
- Chandrashekhar P., School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Dayananda Sagar University, Kumarswamy Layout, Bengaluru, India; Harshitha G.K., Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied Sciences, REVA University, Bengaluru, India; Ramanjinappa R., Christ University, Kanmanike, Kumbalgodu, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; Manjula K.R., Christ University, Kanmanike, Kumbalgodu, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; Mayegowda S.B., Christ University, Kanmanike, Kumbalgodu, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISBN: 979-888697238-2
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Book chapter
Collection
Citation
Chandrashekhar P.; Harshitha G.K.; Ramanjinappa R.; Manjula K.R.; Mayegowda S.B., “Implementation of biological fuel cells in treating pharmaceutical effluents,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 23, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/18536.