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The AWMC is a faculty-level
research centre within UQ, supported by 6 academics and with
over 50 staff and postgraduate students who work on a variety of
topics concerning wastewater treatment, resource recovery and
environmental biotechnology. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) is one
of the major research directions of the AWMC. Currently, 5 PhD
students and 2 postdoctoral research fellows are working on
different aspects of MFCs, grouped on these main topics:
- elucidating electron, proton and carbon flows in
electro-biochemical reactions;
- sulfur conversions in MFC;
- denitrification in the MFC
cathode and the link to simultaneous carbon and nitrogen removal;
- microbial ecology and biofilm
interactions in MFC anodes; and
- development of scalable MFC.
The research is supported by the
Australian Research Council, Aust.Govt (DEST) International
Linkages Scheme (in collaboration with the EU project NEPTUNE)
University of Queensland internal funding and several individual
scholarships for most PhD students. Key personnel on this
project are Jurg Keller and Korneel Rabaey.
The home page:
http://awmc.uq.edu.au
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