Abstract:The sediment microbial fuel cells(SMFC),which can simultaneously degrade organic pollutants and recover electric energy,are developed to treat cyanobacterial water,which can biologically degrade organic pollutants and recover electric energy.The effects of substrate types on power generation of SMFC were investigated in this study.The results showed that the performance of SMFC established was significantly influenced by substrate type.The power densities of cyanobacteria+sodium acetate,cyanobacteria,cyanobacteria +glucose and control system were 15.59,12.72,10.52 and 8.35 mW/m2,respectively,while the COD removal efficiency of those were 60.1%,27.2%,19.6% and 18.1%,respectively.The different variational law between the power densities and the COD removal efficiency could be attributed to the fact that the removed COD was not completely used to power generation by the electricigens in the SMFC system due to the existence of ferment substrate-glucose.
