ABSTRACT
The conviction of decimation through exertion has been adopted by many of the researchers to control the outburst of poisonous gases and polyphenols into the water bodies by the small- scale and large-scale industries after the effect of industrialization. Because of the recalcitrant and toxic nature of phenol, the fate of phenol in the environment is of great concern. The present work involves attempts at the possibility of removal, and phenol and bioelectricity generation through biodegradation using a newly designed integrated bioreactor/bioelectricity generator. Continuous phenol degradation was accomplished in a two-phase reservoir, using phenol degrading bacteria Paenibacillus sp strain GA2KVM that are collected from the coir retting soils and was deposited under the accession number MT509865.Watermelon peels were used as a cheap biosorption material for this current study. The third stage of the reactor collaborates with a bioelectricity generator in the form of a microbial fuel cell. The removal process was carried out in the bioreactor for 1-8 hours, and phenol removal was found to be 84.03%. It also shows some slight deflections in the multimeter recording the voltage formation, and it would be referred to as the production of bioelectricity. The treatment was done at various flow rates of 1ml/minutes, 2ml/minutes, 5ml/minutes. The efficiency of phenol treatment alone with watermelon beds, bacteria, and in combination was evaluated through degradation assay (Mordaque et al. 1999).
The present work in the future may assemble the scale-up studies of the present system, which are found to be a promising one that combines a bioreactor and bioelectricity generator for better chemical waste management and energy production.
