The invention provides a device for coprocessing heavy
metal waste water and organic waste water and generating
electric power. The device comprises an
electrolytic cell which is separated into an
anode chamber and a
cathode chamber by a bipolar membrane, wherein an
anode and a
cathode are respectively arranged in the
anode chamber and the
cathode chamber, the anode and the cathode are connected with a
resistor through a lead, the anode is composed of
electric power generating microbes and an anode substrate, the cathode is made from metallic
titanium with electrochemical
inertia or carbon materials, the anode chamber contains the waste water containing organic pollutants, and the cathode chamber contains the heavy
metal waste water. According to the invention, the organic pollutants are oxidized into
carbon dioxide by the
electric power generating microbes attached to the anode in the same
electrochemical cell, and electrons and protons can be simultaneously released, the protons can combine with hydroxyls dissociated from the bipolar membrane to generate water, while the electrons can be transmitted to the cathode by an
external circuit, the electrons can reduce the heavy
metal in the heavy metal waste water to metal elementary substances and the metal elementary substances deposit on the surface of the cathode, and the protons dissociated from the bipolar membrane can combine with negative ions to generate acid or can be neutralized to water in the cathode chamber.