Urine in Bioelectrochemical Systems: An Overall Review

Published date: 16 March 2020

Additional Information: Funding Information: . Dr. Maria Jose Salar Garcia is a postdoctoral researcher at Bristol Bioenergy Centre (University of the West of England). She received her Ph.D in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering (Technical University of Cartagena, Spain) in 2016 and was awarded with the extraordinary Ph.D award. After her Ph.D, she was funded by Seneca Foundation (Science and Technology Agency for the Region of Murcia) to conduct her research at Bristol BioEnergy Centre. Her research field focuses on the design and optimisation of Microbial Fuel Cells as well as the use of green solvents such as ionic liquids in membrane technology. These research lines have resulted in more than 40 scientific publications (h‐index: 13), 8 book chapters and 37 communications in both international and national congresses Funding Information: The authors would like to thank the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for their support under the grant no. OPP1149065. M.J. Salar-Garcia is supported by Fundaci?n Seneca (Ref. 20372/PD/17) Funding Information: The authors would like to thank the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for their support under the grant no. OPP1149065. M.J. Salar‐Garcia is supported by Fundación Seneca (Ref. 20372/PD/17) Funding Information: . Dr. Pavlina Theodosiou is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Bristol Bioenergy Centre (UWE, Bristol) working on the research and development of the PeePower technology. Her project is funded by OXFAM and focuses on implementing the PeePower in refugee camps and slums in the developing world. She has a background in Biological Sciences (BSc) and a PhD in Bioenergy and Self‐Sustainable Systems. Her PhD was funded by the European Commission under the project EVOBLISS (FP‐7). For her thesis she was working with the robotic platform EvoBot, a 3D‐printer turned to robot, which she used as an automated Robot‐Chemostat for culturing and maintaining Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs). The improved MFCs powered the 2018 edition EcoBot‐II and for this work she was awarded the “Best Biology Paper” at the 6 Living Machines Conference th Funding Information: . Ioannis A. Ieropoulos is Professor of Bioenergy & Self‐Sustainable Systems and Founder and Director of the Bristol BioEnergy Centre, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UWE. He has an interest in waste utilisation and energy autonomy and produced the EcoBot family of robots and RowBot, which have their own MFC microbiome and operate completely devoid of conventional power sources. He has been an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow (2010‐2015) and is currently a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grantee on the “Urine‐tricity/PEE POWER” project, advancing the MFC technology for sanitation improvement in Developing World Countries. He leads projects, focusing on robotics, biodegradable & functional materials, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, and the European Commission (FP‐6, FP‐7 and H2020) with a focus on living architecture. He has published >100 peer reviewed journal papers, generated >£10 M of research income in the last 10 years and holds 2 patents on MFC stack development, configuration, modulation and control Publisher Copyright: © 2020 The Authors. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

Keywords: bioelectrochemical systems, microbial fuel cell, nitrogen, phosphorous, urine

Local EPrints ID: 454008

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/454008

DOI: doi:10.1002/celc.201901995

PURE UUID: 6d70a177-bec7-4491-8ca5-6706c0900ef8

ORCID for Ioannis Ieropoulos: orcid.org/0000-0002-9641-5504

Date deposited: 27 Jan 2022 18:12

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