Microbial electrochemical treatment of biorefinery black liquor and resource recovery

Chen, Xi; Katahira, Rui; Ge, Zheng; Lu, Lu; Hou, Dianxun; Peterson, Darren J.; Tucker, Melvin P.; Chen, Xiaowen; Ren, Zhiyong Jason

doi:10.1039/C8GC02909A

Title: Microbial electrochemical treatment of biorefinery black liquor and resource recovery

Abstract

A microbial electrochemical process for energy-effective biorefinery black liquor treatment and in situ value-added product recovery.

Authors:

^[1]; Katahira, Rui ^[2]; Ge, Zheng ^[3]; Lu, Lu ^[1];

^[3]; Peterson, Darren J. ^[2]; Tucker, Melvin P. ^[2]; Chen, Xiaowen ^[2];

^[1]

Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)

Publication Date:: 2018-12-06

Research Org.:: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Sustainable Transportation Office. Bioenergy Technologies Office

OSTI Identifier:: 1507286

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1489700

Report Number(s):: NREL/JA-5100-72394
Journal ID: ISSN 1463-9262; GRCHFJ

Grant/Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Green Chemistry

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 21; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 1463-9262

Publisher:: Royal Society of Chemistry

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 09 BIOMASS FUELS; microbial electrochemistry; DMR; waste utilization

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                    Chen, Xi, Katahira, Rui, Ge, Zheng, Lu, Lu, Hou, Dianxun, Peterson, Darren J., Tucker, Melvin P., Chen, Xiaowen, and Ren, Zhiyong Jason. Microbial electrochemical treatment of biorefinery black liquor and resource recovery.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Chen, Xi, Katahira, Rui, Ge, Zheng, Lu, Lu, Hou, Dianxun, Peterson, Darren J., Tucker, Melvin P., Chen, Xiaowen, & Ren, Zhiyong Jason. Microbial electrochemical treatment of biorefinery black liquor and resource recovery.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1039/C8GC02909A

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                    Chen, Xi, Katahira, Rui, Ge, Zheng, Lu, Lu, Hou, Dianxun, Peterson, Darren J., Tucker, Melvin P., Chen, Xiaowen, and Ren, Zhiyong Jason. Thu .  
"Microbial electrochemical treatment of biorefinery black liquor and resource recovery".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1039/C8GC02909A.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1507286.

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@article{osti_1507286,

  title        = {Microbial electrochemical treatment of biorefinery black liquor and resource recovery},

  author       = {Chen, Xi and Katahira, Rui and Ge, Zheng and Lu, Lu and Hou, Dianxun and Peterson, Darren J. and Tucker, Melvin P. and Chen, Xiaowen and Ren, Zhiyong Jason},

  abstractNote = {A microbial electrochemical process for energy-effective biorefinery black liquor treatment and in situ value-added product recovery.},

  doi          = {10.1039/C8GC02909A},

  journal      = {Green Chemistry},

  number       = 6,

  volume       = 21,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2018},

  month        = {12}

}

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Effectiveness of coagulation and acid precipitation processes for the pre-treatment of diluted black liquor
journal, August 2010

Improving Sugar Yields and Reducing Enzyme Loadings in the Deacetylation and Mechanical Refining (DMR) Process through Multistage Disk and Szego Refining and Corresponding Techno-Economic Analysis
journal, December 2015

Recycling of Dilute Deacetylation Black Liquor to Enable Efficient Recovery and Reuse of Spent Chemicals and Biomass Pretreatment Waste
journal, June 2018

Carbon dioxide as a pH-switch anti-solvent for biomass fractionation and pre-treatment with aqueous hydroxide solutions
journal, January 2017

Effect of electrolyte pH on the rate of the anodic and cathodic reactions in an air-cathode microbial fuel cell
journal, November 2008

Nickel based catalysts for highly efficient H2 evolution from wastewater in microbial electrolysis cells
journal, July 2016

Bioelectrochemical system platform for sustainable environmental remediation and energy generation
journal, May 2015

Optimization of membrane stack configuration in enlarged microbial desalination cells for efficient water desalination
journal, August 2016

Formation of uniform colloidal spheres from lignin, a renewable resource recovered from pulping spent liquor
text, January 2013

Building a Bridge from Papermaking to Solar Fuels
journal, September 2019

Building a Bridge from Papermaking to Solar Fuels
journal, September 2019

Electrical decoupling of microbial electrochemical reactions enables spontaneous H ₂ evolution
journal, January 2020

A simple construction strategy for fabrication of sulfur-doped silicate materials from attapulgite
journal, January 2020