Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Fouling-resistant biofilter of an anaerobic electrochemical membrane reactor

  • Qilin Yu,
  • Yaobin Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12838-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Membrane use as a cathode is a common measure to retard fouling in anaerobic electrochemical membrane bioreactors, but this cannot avoid the fouling growth. Here the authors report on using membranes as anodes to create equilibrium between fouling and oxidation to maintain stable operation.