New Invention Profile
| Publication No: | IN202411013914 [India] | Application No: | IN202411013914 |
| Title: | Microbial-Bio-Electrochemical reactor (M-BEC) for enhanced BIO-H2 production | ||
| Publication Date: | 12-09-2025 | File Date: | 26-02-2024 |
| Inventor(s): | Partha, Kundu | ||
| IPC Classification: | C02F000900, C02F000300, C02F000334, C12P000300, C02F000128 | ||
| Abstract: | The present invention relates to a Microbial-bio-electrochemical reactor (M-BEC) for enhanced bio-H2 production. More particularly, the present invention relates to a reactor for the removal of biodegradable contaminants from wastewater using biological processes. The developed Microbial-bio-electrochemical reactor (M-BEC) system is intrinsically coupled the dark fermentation with microbial-electrochemical process together into a next generation bioreactor which employs biocatalyst to convert chemical energy stored in organics to hydrogen energy. The coupled M-BEC technology has developed to aimed towards the enhancement of the metabolic activity of electrochemically active biocatalyst by supplying organic/inorganic nutrients, electron acceptors, or donors, which felicitate the electro-hydrogenesis in a membrane less single cell reactor for bio-Hydrogen (green H2) production. The present invention also relates to a process for treatment of highly contaminated water which contains a large amount of biodegradable suspended solids (TSS) and high concentrations of BOD (biochemical oxygen demand) and COD (chemical oxygen demand) and enables the efficient removal of biodegradable TSS from wastewater. |
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