%0 Journal Article
%T Modelisation and Optimization of a Microbial Desalination Cell System
%A Hedia Khaled
%A Adel Zrelli
%A Mouna Hamed
%A B¨Śchir Chaouachi
%J Journal of Sustainable Bioenergy Systems
%P 118-130
%@ 2165-4018
%D 2021
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/jsbs.2021.113009
%X In this work, we used a hybrid system composed of a Microbial Desalination <span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Cell (MDC). This system allows, at the same time, the treatment of </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">wastewater and the production of electrical energy for the desalination of saltwater. </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">MDC is a cleaning technology used to purify wastewater. This process has</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> been driven by converting organic compounds contained in wastewater into electrical </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">energy through biological, chemical, and electrochemical processes. The</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> produced electrical energy was used to desalinate the saline water. The objective of this work is the desalination or pre-desalination of seawater. For this, </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">we </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">have established a theoretical model consisting of differential equations de</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">scrib</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">ing the behavior of this system. Subsequently, we developed a program on</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">MAT-</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">LAB software to simulate and optimized the operation of this system</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> and to promote the production of electrical energy in order to improve the desalination efficiency of the MDC. The theoretical re</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">sult shows that the electrical current production is maximal when the methanogenic growth rate</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">equal to zero</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">, increases with the increasing of influent substrate concentration and the efficiency of desalination increased with flow rate of saline water.</span>
%K Microbial Desalination Cell
%K Desalination
%K Wastewater
%K Electrical Current Production
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=111427