Microbial Fuel Cell Cleans and Desalinates Water While Generating Electricity

摘要

Simultaneously cleaning waste-water, generating electricity, and desalinating water seems too good to be true, but a team of researchers has created a process that does just that.rnResearchers from China and the United States have modified a microbial fuel cell, which uses naturally occurring bacteria to convert waste-water into clean water while producing electricity to desalinate water, according to a Pennsylvania State University (Penn State; University Park) news release. The cell can remove 90% of salt from brackish water or seawater.