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A newly designed microbial electrochemical system (MES) with the addition of a baffle between the electrodes was integrated with the anaerobic digestion (AD) process for biogas upgradation. Novel MES configuration attained an increased methane production rate of 292.6 mL/L∙d and methane yield of 0.36 ± 0.006 [Formula: see text] /g, which were higher than the values (185.3 mL/L∙d and 0.33 ± 0.009 [Formula: see text] /g) from the MES operation without baffle, respectively. Moreover, the MES with baffle operation resulted in increased substrate removal (88.4 ± 0.5%) and less volatile fatty acids accumulation with a high energy efficiency of 99.6 %. Microbial community analysis revealed that acids metabolizing bacteria, Firmicutes, and Methanothrix were highly enriched in the cathode biofilm of MES with baffle. This study suggests that the baffle addition into the single chamber MES is beneficial to further improve the methanogenesis process for practical applications in the scaled-up MES-AD process.
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