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Juliette Monetti
Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia

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Dissertation
Published: 28 April 2021
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Juliette Monetti. Optimisation of microbial electrochemical systems for nutrient recovery from source-separated urine. 2021, 1 .

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Juliette Monetti. Optimisation of microbial electrochemical systems for nutrient recovery from source-separated urine. . 2021; ():1.

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Juliette Monetti. 2021. "Optimisation of microbial electrochemical systems for nutrient recovery from source-separated urine." , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 03 October 2019 in Sustainability
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Nutrient recovery from source-separated human urine has been identified by many as a viable avenue towards the circular economy of nutrients. Moreover, untreated (and partially treated) urine is the main anthropogenic route of environmental discharge of nutrients, most concerning for nitrogen, whose release has exceeded the planet’s own self-healing capacity. Urine contains all key macronutrients (N, P, and K) and micronutrients (S, Ca, Mg, and trace metals) needed for plant growth and is, therefore, an excellent fertilizer. However, direct reuse is not recommended in modern society due to the presence of active organic molecules and heavy metals in urine. Many systems have been proposed and tested for nutrient recovery from urine, but none so far has reached technological maturity due to usually high power or chemical requirements or the need for advanced process controls. This work is the proof of concept for the world’s first nutrient recovery system that powers itself and does not require any chemicals or process controls. This is a variation of the previously proposed microbial electrochemical Ugold process, where a novel air cathode catalyst active in urine conditions (pH 9, high ammonia) enables in situ generation of electricity in a microbial fuel cell setup, and the simultaneous harvesting of such electricity for the electrodialytic concentration of ionic nutrients into a product stream, which is free of heavy metals. The system was able to sustain electrical current densities around 3 A m–2 for over two months while simultaneously upconcentrating N and K by a factor of 1.5–1.7.

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Stefano Freguia; Maddalena Logrieco; Juliette Monetti; Pablo Ledezma; Bernardino Virdis; Seiya Tsujimura. Self-Powered Bioelectrochemical Nutrient Recovery for Fertilizer Generation from Human Urine. Sustainability 2019, 11, 5490 .

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Stefano Freguia, Maddalena Logrieco, Juliette Monetti, Pablo Ledezma, Bernardino Virdis, Seiya Tsujimura. Self-Powered Bioelectrochemical Nutrient Recovery for Fertilizer Generation from Human Urine. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (19):5490.

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Stefano Freguia; Maddalena Logrieco; Juliette Monetti; Pablo Ledezma; Bernardino Virdis; Seiya Tsujimura. 2019. "Self-Powered Bioelectrochemical Nutrient Recovery for Fertilizer Generation from Human Urine." Sustainability 11, no. 19: 5490.

Research article
Published: 28 January 2019 in ACS Omega
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Removal and recovery of nutrients from waste streams is essential to avoid depletion of finite resources and further disruption of the nutrient cycles. Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) are gaining interest because of their ability to recover nutrients through ion migration across membranes at a low energy demand. This work assesses the feasibility of the concept of nutrient bio-electroconcentration from domestic wastewater, which is a widely available source of nutrients in ionic form, collected via sewer networks and easily accessible at centralized wastewater treatment plants. Here, we demonstrate the limits of a three-chamber BES for the recovery of nutrients from domestic wastewater. Because of low ionic conductivity, the measured current densities did not exceed 2 A m–2, with corresponding limited nutrient ion recoveries. Moreover, in a 3D electrode, forcing higher current densities through potentiostatic control leads to higher Ohmic losses, resulting in anode potential profiles and runaway currents and potentials, with consequent unwanted water oxidation and disintegration of the graphite electrode. At the current density of 1.9 A m–2, N removal efficiency of 48.1% was obtained at the anode. However, calcium and magnesium salts precipitated on the anion-exchange membrane, putatively lowering its permselectivity and allowing for migration of cations through it. This phenomenon resulted in low N and K recovery efficiencies (12.0 and 11.5%, respectively), whereas P was not recovered because of precipitation of salts in the concentrate chamber.

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Juliette Monetti; Pablo Ledezma; Bernardino Virdis; Stefano Freguia. Nutrient Recovery by Bio-Electroconcentration is Limited by Wastewater Conductivity. ACS Omega 2019, 4, 2152 -2159.

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Juliette Monetti, Pablo Ledezma, Bernardino Virdis, Stefano Freguia. Nutrient Recovery by Bio-Electroconcentration is Limited by Wastewater Conductivity. ACS Omega. 2019; 4 (1):2152-2159.

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Juliette Monetti; Pablo Ledezma; Bernardino Virdis; Stefano Freguia. 2019. "Nutrient Recovery by Bio-Electroconcentration is Limited by Wastewater Conductivity." ACS Omega 4, no. 1: 2152-2159.

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Published: 28 October 2015 in Environmental Science & Technology
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High product specificity and production rate are regarded as key success parameters for large-scale applicability of a (bio)chemical reaction technology. Here, we report a significant performance enhancement in acetate formation from CO2, reaching comparable productivity levels as in industrial fermentation processes (volumetric production rate and product yield). A biocathode current density of −102 ± 1 A m–2 and an acetic acid production rate of 685 ± 30 (g m–2 day–1) have been achieved in this study. High recoveries of 94 ± 2% of the CO2 supplied as the sole carbon source and 100 ± 4% of electrons into the final product (acetic acid) were achieved after development of a mature biofilm, reaching an elevated product titer of up to 11 g L–1. This high product specificity is remarkable for mixed microbial cultures, which would make the product downstream processing easier and the technology more attractive. This performance enhancement was enabled through the combination of a well-acclimatized and enriched microbial culture (very fast start-up after culture transfer), coupled with the use of a newly synthesized electrode material, EPD-3D. The throwing power of the electrophoretic deposition technique, a method suitable for large-scale production, was harnessed to form multiwalled carbon nanotube coatings onto reticulated vitreous carbon to generate a hierarchical porous structure.

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Ludovic Jourdin; Timothy Grieger; Juliette Monetti; Victoria Flexer; Stefano Freguia; Yang Lu; Jun Chen; Mark S Romano; Gordon Wallace; Jurg Keller. High Acetic Acid Production Rate Obtained by Microbial Electrosynthesis from Carbon Dioxide. Environmental Science & Technology 2015, 49, 13566 -13574.

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Ludovic Jourdin, Timothy Grieger, Juliette Monetti, Victoria Flexer, Stefano Freguia, Yang Lu, Jun Chen, Mark S Romano, Gordon Wallace, Jurg Keller. High Acetic Acid Production Rate Obtained by Microbial Electrosynthesis from Carbon Dioxide. Environmental Science & Technology. 2015; 49 (22):13566-13574.

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Ludovic Jourdin; Timothy Grieger; Juliette Monetti; Victoria Flexer; Stefano Freguia; Yang Lu; Jun Chen; Mark S Romano; Gordon Wallace; Jurg Keller. 2015. "High Acetic Acid Production Rate Obtained by Microbial Electrosynthesis from Carbon Dioxide." Environmental Science & Technology 49, no. 22: 13566-13574.