Review on microbial fuel cells applications, developments and costs

JV Boas, VB Oliveira, M Simões, AMFR Pinto - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology has attracted significant attention in the last years
due to its potential to recover energy in a wastewater treatment. The idea of using an MFC in …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial fuel cells, a renewable energy technology for bio-electricity generation: A mini-review

KC Obileke, H Onyeaka, EL Meyer… - Electrochemistry …, 2021 - Elsevier
The unsustainable nature and the environmental impact of fossil fuels have shifted attention
to renewable energy and fuel cells, especially in the transportation sector. In this study, the …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial fuel cell construction features and application for sustainable wastewater treatment

H Roy, TU Rahman, N Tasnim, J Arju, MM Rafid… - Membranes, 2023 - mdpi.com
A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a system that can generate electricity by harnessing
microorganisms' metabolic activity. MFCs can be used in wastewater treatment plants since …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial fuel cell as new technology for bioelectricity generation: A review

M Rahimnejad, A Adhami, S Darvari, A Zirepour… - Alexandria Engineering …, 2015 - Elsevier
Recently, great attentions have been paid to microbial fuel cells (MFCs) due to their mild
operating conditions and using variety of biodegradable substrates as fuel. The traditional …

Challenges in the application of microbial fuel cells to wastewater treatment and energy production: a mini review

MH Do, HH Ngo, WS Guo, Y Liu, SW Chang… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Wastewater is now considered to be a vital reusable source of water reuse and saving
energy. However, current wastewater has multiple limitations such as high energy costs …

[HTML][HTML] Outlook on the role of microbial fuel cells in remediation of environmental pollutants with electricity generation

AA Yaqoob, A Khatoon, SH Mohd Setapar, K Umar… - Catalysts, 2020 - mdpi.com
A wide variety of pollutants are discharged into water bodies like lakes, rivers, canal, etc.
due to the growing world population, industrial development, depletion of water resources …

[HTML][HTML] A perspective review on microbial fuel cells in treatment and product recovery from wastewater

S Malik, S Kishore, A Dhasmana, P Kumari, T Mitra… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
The treatment of wastewater is an expensive and energy-extensive practice that not only
ensures the power generation requirements to sustain the current energy demands of an …

A critical review on recent proton exchange membranes applied in microbial fuel cells for renewable energy recovery

M Shabani, H Younesi, M Pontié, A Rahimpour… - Journal of cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a critical review of the proton exchange membranes currently available
or under development for use in batch-mode microbial fuel cell (MFC) systems in order to …

Goethite supplemented natural clay ceramic as an alternative proton exchange membrane and its application in microbial fuel cell

I Das, S Das, R Dixit, MM Ghangrekar - Ionics, 2020 - Springer
Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a bioelectrochemical system, which treats wastewater with
simultaneous recovery of bioelectricity. Costly proton exchange membrane, like Nafion-117 …

Biofouling effects on the performance of microbial fuel cells and recent advances in biotechnological and chemical strategies for mitigation

MT Noori, MM Ghangrekar, CK Mukherjee… - Biotechnology advances, 2019 - Elsevier
The occurrence of biofouling in MFC can cause severe problems such as hindering proton
transfer and increasing the ohmic and charge transfer resistance of cathodes, which results …