The lecturer Dr. Ziad Tariq, Prof. Dr. Ali Hussein Abbar and the engineer Duaa Raad Saad, from the department of biochemical engineering at Al-Khwarizmi college of engineering have got a patent on the ” Removal of Cadmium from Simulated Wastewaters Using a Fixed Bed Bioelectrochemical Reactor”. The study included examining the performance of a new design of a fixed bed bio-electrochemical reactor with a fixed filling consisting of stainless steel clips in order to remove cadmium from wastewater as well as studying the effects of the operating factors represented by increasing the applied voltage across the reactor poles of the cadmium ion.
The results showed that the applied cell voltage had the main impact on the removal efficiency of cadmium where increasing the applied voltage led to higher removal efficiency, also increasing the applied voltage was found to be given lower current efficiency and higher energy consumption, in addition to no significant effect of initial Cd concentration on the removal efficiency of cadmium but increasing the initial concentration would be given higher current efficiency and lower energy consumption.
Removal of Cadmium from Simulated Wastewaters Using a Fixed Bed Bioelectrochemical Reactor
