The invention discloses a
hydrogen production method for treating
etching solution
wastewater by using a photo-assisted single-chamber microbial
electrolytic cell, and relates to the technical field of microbial
electrochemistry and
photocatalysis, and the
hydrogen production method comprises the following steps: S1, mixing an anolyte of a stably operated double-chamber
microbial fuel cell with
etching solution
tail end
wastewater, adding the mixture into a reactor, and regularly replacing the solution until the
anode potential is stable; s2, domesticating two ends of the
electrode by using a direct-current power supply and external
voltage until the potential of the
cathode is reduced, and completing the
domestication of the
anode; and S3, the
photocathode adopts a photocatalytic material, and organic matters are mineralized and
nickel ions are removed while
hydrogen is produced under an external
voltage condition. The photo-assisted microbial electrolytic tank integrates the advantages of water
electrolysis hydrogen production, photocatalytic
hydrogen production and microbial electrolytic tank
hydrogen production, overcomes the defect that a photocatalyst for photocatalytic hydrogen production is unstable, reduces the
energy consumption required by microbial electrolytic tank hydrogen production, and recovers heavy
metal mineralized
refractory organics in
etching liquid
tail end
wastewater. The method is a clean, efficient and low-consumption mode for treating wastewater and simultaneously producing hydrogen.