Harnessing a methane‐fueled, sediment‐free mixed microbial community for utilization of distributed sources of natural gas

JJ Marlow, A Kumar, BC Enalls… - Biotechnology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… to harness the methane-oxidizing, sulfide-producing capabilities of microbial communities
Harnessing complex natural assemblages of organisms offers important advantages over …

Potential mechanisms for microbial energy acquisition in oxic deep-sea sediments

BJ Tully, JF Heidelberg - Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
… for the first 20 cm below the seafloor (cmbsf), and it is at … harness other sources of reduced
compounds. SPGG4, a novel proteobacterium, has several unique pathways for generating

[HTML][HTML] Approaches to unmask functioning of the uncultured microbial majority from extreme habitats on the seafloor

S Böhnke, M Perner - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… for the future, can only lie in harnessing the strengths of available cultivation-dependent and
… the window into previously inaccessible microbial physiologies of the microbial dark matter. …

Primary productivity below the seafloor at deep-sea hot springs

J McNichol, H Stryhanyuk, SP Sylva… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
… chemosynthetic microorganisms that harness chemical energy … may extend far below the
seafloor to vast regions of the … 2 incorporation into bulk microbial biomass by elemental analysis…

Shewanella algae relatives capable of generating electricity from acetate contribute to coastal-sediment microbial fuel cells treating complex organic matter

Y Inohana, S Katsuya, R Koga, A Kouzuma… - Microbes and …, 2020 - jstage.jst.go.jp
… In the present study, since Shewanella was more abundantly detected in CS-MFCs generating
high power densities (OR-MFC and ER-MFC) than in low-power MFCs (TR-MFC and ST-…

Scaling up benthic microbial fuel cells using flyback converters

JT Babauta, M Kerber, L Hsu, A Phipps… - Journal of Power …, 2018 - Elsevier
… that are critical to the future integration of BMFCs with seafloor systems and sensors. … to
generating power by harnessing redox gradients that exist in sediments is via microbial fuel cell …

Electrically Isolated Energy Harvesting

M Bond, M Kerber, M Murphy, L Hsu… - OCEANS 2019 …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… sediments, utilizing the sea floor as the membrane between … operating on or near the seafloor.
We developed a segmented … , “Harnessing microbially generated power on the seafloor,” …

Proof-of-concept for a novel application for in situ microfluidic benthic microbial fuel cell device (MBMFC)

T Nguyen, YM Arias-Thode, A Obraztsova… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
… A Benthic MFC (BMFC) uses indigenous bacteria that live in the sediment of the ocean floor
[… -cloth cathode could generate power immediately with a high average power density of 80 …

Sustainability of microbial fuel cells, marine energy, and hydrogen

BC Kotun, OA Adewara, OE Oyetunji… - Microbial Biotechnology …, 2024 - Elsevier
… The power harnessed from MFCs can power oceanographic equipment, mobile … the ocean
floor and anchored to a base. The rotors are moved by the tidal currents, which produce power

Microbial bioelectricity generation and product Electrosynthesis

JM Pisciotta, S Blessing - Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2022 - Springer
… (DC) electricity using microbialpower densities generated by disparate electrogenic
microorganisms on the bioanode are examined. Newer bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) harness