Induced Tunnelling/Hopping Potentials in Microbial Electron Transfer for Efficient Energy Recovery from Sewage
Dr. Po-Heng Lee, Civil and Environmental Engineering – Imperial College London
Human faces unrelenting challenges related water, energy, urbanization and the environment in 21st. Such planet’s forces urge us to surpass classical limitations and ,perhaps, understand quantum mechanisms in biological nature so as to revolute in wastewater sector for resource recovery. In this talk, a novel anaerobic fluidized-bed membrane bioreactor (AFMBR) with granular activated carbon (GAC) will be introduced for energy production from sewage. The first effort is to address, with GAC, efficient methane production through direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) is associated between acetoclastic Methanothrix concilii and exoelectrogenic Geobacter lovleyi, but not sole on the rate-limiting anaerobic syntropy. The second focus is to reveal the quantum tunnelling/hopping potentials in efficient DIET through wave function. Lastly, future research direction and implementation will be discussed to triumph in 21st challenge.