Browsing by Author "Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim"
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A microbial fuel cell configured for the remediation of recalcitrant pollutants in soil environment
Mohanakrishna, Gunda; Al-Raoush, Riyadh I.; Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim M.; Pant, Deepak ( Royal Society of Chemistry , 2019 , Article)A pristine soil environment supports a healthy soil biodiversity, which is often polluted with recalcitrant compounds. The bioelectrochemical remediation of the contaminated soils using bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) ... -
Advanced Routes of Biological and Bio-electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Mitigation Toward Carbon Neutrality
Kondaveeti, Sanath; Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim M.; Mohanakrishna, Gunda; Bulut, Metin; Pant, Deepak ( Frontiers Media S.A. , 2020 , Article Review)Changes in the environment due to multiple factors, such as combustion of fossil fuels, heating, transportation, deforestation, etc., have led to more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which eventually led to a rise in ... -
Ammonium removal from synthetic wastewater promoted by current generation and water flux in an osmotic microbial fuel cell
Qin, Mohan; Hynes, Erin A; Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim M.; He, Zhen ( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)Recovering useful resources from wastes represents a new approach of clean production with significant environmental and economic benefits. Ammonium nitrogen, which is an important inorganic contaminant and also a resource ... -
Applications of Matlab optimization capabilities in the design of N-continuous stirred tank bioreactors connected in series
Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim M. ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2014 , Conference Paper)The optimal design (variable volume) of continuous stirred tank reactors (CSTR's), in series, performing biological conversion of organic materials, was derived. The optimal design was based on the minimum overall reactor ... -
Bioelectrochemical production of hydrogen in an innovative pressure-retarded osmosis/microbial electrolysis cell system: experiments and modeling
Yuan, Heyang; Lu, Yaobin; Abu‑Reesh, Ibrahim M.; He, Zhen ( BioMed Central , 2015 , Article)Background While microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) can simultaneously produce bioelectrochemical hydrogen and treat wastewater, they consume considerable energy to overcome the unfavorable thermodynamics, which is not ... -
Biofilm formation and electron transfer in bioelectrochemical systems
Sevda, Surajbhan; Sharma, Swati; Joshi, Chetan; Pandey, Lalit; Tyagi, Namrata; Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim; Sreekrishnan, T. R.... more authors ... less authors ( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2018 , Article)In the recent years, considerable body of research has been carried out in the field of bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) for treatment of wastewater and generation of power. In these systems, different microbes are used ... -
Biorefinery perspectives of microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) for hydrogen and valuable chemicals production through wastewater treatment
Kadier, Abudukeremu; Jain, Pratiksha; Lai, Bin; Kalil, Mohd Sahaid; Kondaveeti, Sanath; Fahad Saud Alabbosh, Khulood; Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim M.; Mohanakrishna, Gunda... more authors ... less authors ( Green Wave Publishing of Canada , 2020 , Article Review)The degradation of waste organics through microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) generates hydrogen (H2) gas in an economically efficient way. MEC is known as the advanced concept of the microbial fuel cell (MFC) but requires ... -
A comparative study of the treatment of ethylene plant spent caustic by neutralization and classical and advanced oxidation
Hawari, Alaa; Ramadan, Hasanat; Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim; Ouederni, Mabrouk ( Academic Press , 2015 , Article)The treatment of spent caustic produced from an ethylene plant was investigated. In the case of neutralization alone it was found that the maximum removal of sulfide was at pH values below 5.5. The higher percentage removal ... -
Degradation of 4-chlorophenol through cooperative reductive and oxidative processes in an electrochemical system
Yang, Kaichao; Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim M.; He, Zhen ( Elsevier B.V. , 2023 , Conference Paper)Electrochemical treatment can be an effective approach for degrading recalcitrant organic contaminants because its anode/cathode produces powerful oxidizing/reducing conditions. Herein, through the cooperation of the ... -
Effects of current generation and electrolyte pH on reverse salt flux across thin film composite membrane in osmotic microbial fuel cells
Qin, Mohan; Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim M.; He, Zhen ( Elsevier, Ltd , 2016 , Article)Osmotic microbial fuel cells (OsMFCs) take advantages of synergy between forward osmosis (FO) and microbial fuel cells (MFCs) to accomplish wastewater treatment, current generation, and high-quality water extraction. As ... -
Effects of electron acceptors on removal of antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli, resistance genes and class 1 integrons under anaerobic conditions
Yuan, Heyang; Miller, Jennifer H.; Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim M.; Pruden, Amy; He, Zhen ( Elsevier B.V. , 2016 , Article)Anaerobic biotechnologies can effectively remove antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), but there is a need to better understand the mechanisms. Here we employ bioelectrochemical systems ... -
Electrooxidation of methanol on Ag, AgNi, and AgCo catalysts prepared by combustion synthesis technique
Yuda, Afdhal; Kumar, Anand; Abu Reesh, Ibrahim; Russell, Christopher K.; Miller, Jeffrey T.; Ali Saleh Saad, Mohammed; Al-Marri, Mohammed J.... more authors ... less authors ( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2022 , Article)Herein, we report the synthesis of silver-based electrocatalysts (Ag/C, AgCo/C, and AgNi/C) using solution combustion method and their performance towards methanol oxidation reaction. Detailed structural and microscopic ... -
Enhanced bioelectrochemical treatment of petroleum refinery wastewater with Labaneh whey as co-substrate
Mohanakrishna, Gunda; Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim M.; Pant, Deepak ( Nature Research , 2020 , Article)Petroleum refinery wastewater (PRW) that contains recalcitrant components as the major portion of constituents is difficult to treat by conventional biological processes. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) which also produce ... -
Enhanced boron removal by electricity generation in a microbial fuel cell
Ping, Qingyun; Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim M.; He, Zhen ( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)Boron needs to be removed during desalination, because excessive boron in the product water for irrigation can deteriorate plant growth. In this study, a microbial fuel cell (MFC) equipped with anion exchange membrane (AEM) ... -
Enhancing the degradation of selected recalcitrant organic contaminants through integrated cathode and anode processes in microbial electrochemical systems: A frontier review
Yang, Kaichao; Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim M.; He, Zhen ( Elsevier B.V. , 2022 , Article)Microbial electrochemical system (MES) technology has been widely investigated for organic degradation. However, the removal of recalcitrant organic contaminants containing halogen-, nitro-, or azo-groups remains a great ... -
Enzymatic Electrosynthesis Toward Value Addition
Gunda, Mohanakrishna; Kondaveeti, Sanath; Desale, Pridhviraj; El Mekawy, Ahmed; Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim M. ( Elsevier , 2019 , Book chapter)Utilization of enzymes as biocatalyst found to have specific advantages over whole-cell bacterial biocatalyst in electrochemical systems. The process of enzymatic catalysis in association with electrodes was found to have ... -
Evolution of Seawater Desalination and Petroleum Refinery Wastewater Treatment in a Microbial Desalination Cell
Abu Reesh, Ibrahim M; Sevda, Suraj; He, Zhen ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Petroleum refining, not only consumes large quantities of water but also generates large quantities of wastewater. Large quantities of petroleum refinery wastewater are generated worldwide, approximately 3.5-5 m3 of ... -
Impact of electric potential and magnetic fields on power generation in microbial fuel cells treating food waste leachate
Mohanakrishna, Gunda; Kondaveeti, Sanath; Krishna Bharat, L.; Modigunta, Jeevan Kumar Reddy; Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim M.; Al-Raoush, Riyadh I.... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier Ltd , 2021 , Article)Sustainable bioelectrogenesis was evaluated by oxidizing the organics of food waste leachate (FWL) under the influence of magnetic field (MF) and short term applied voltage (electric potential, EP). Adaptation of MF (20–220 ... -
Integrating electrochemical and bioelectrochemical systems for energetically sustainable treatment of produced water
Gunda, Mohanakrishna; Al-Raoush, Riyadh I.; Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim M. ( Elsevier Ltd , 2021 , Article)Pollutants present in produced water (PW) are recalcitrant in nature and difficult to treat with simple processes. Energetically sustainable and novel approach was developed by integrating electrochemical cell (EC, Primary ... -
Mathematical modeling assisted investigation of forward osmosis as pretreatment for microbial desalination cells to achieve continuous water desalination and wastewater treatment
Yuan, Heyang; Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim M.; He, Zhen ( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)Coupling forward osmosis (FO) with microbial desalination cells (MDCs) can lead to some synergistic benefits, i.e. simultaneous water recovery, desalination and removal of COD (chemical oxygen demand). Herein, an FO-MDC ...