MUMBAI, India, Sept. 12 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202411013914 A) filed by Council Of Scientific And Industrial Research, New Delhi, on Feb. 26, 2024, for 'microbial-bio-electrochemical reactor (m-bec) for enhanced bio-h2 production.'
Inventor(s) include Kundu Partha.
The application for the patent was published on Sept. 12, under issue no. 37/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a Microbial-bio-electrochemical reactor (M-BEC) for enhanced bio-H2 production. More particularly, the present invention relates to a reactor for the removal of biodegradable contaminants from wastewater using biological processes. The developed Microbial-bio-electrochemical reactor (M-BEC) system is intrinsically coupled the dark fermentation with microbial-electrochemical process together into a next generation bio-reactor which employs biocatalyst to convert chemical energy stored in organics to hydrogen energy. The coupled M-BEC technology has developed to aimed towards the enhancement of the metabolic activity of electrochemically active biocatalyst by supplying organic/inorganic nutrients, electron acceptors, or donors, which felicitate the electro-hydrogenesis in a membrane less single cell reactor for bio-Hydrogen (green H2) production. The present invention also relates to a process for treatment of highly contaminated water which contains a large amount of biodegradable suspended solids (TSS) and high concentrations of BOD (biochemical oxygen demand) and COD (chemical oxygen demand) and enables the efficient removal of biodegradable TSS from wastewater."
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