Progress in microbial fuel cell technology for wastewater treatment and energy harvesting

H Gul, W Raza, J Lee, M Azam, M Ashraf, KH Kim - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The global energy crisis has stimulated the development of various forms of green energy
technology such as microbial fuel cells (MFCs) that can be applied synergistically and …

Practical energy harvesting for microbial fuel cells: a review

H Wang, JD Park, ZJ Ren - Environmental science & technology, 2015 - ACS Publications
The microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology offers sustainable solutions for distributed power
systems and energy positive wastewater treatment, but the generation of practically usable …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in biological approaches towards anode biofilm engineering for improvement of extracellular electron transfer in microbial fuel cells

T Naaz, A Kumar, A Vempaty, N Singhal… - Environmental …, 2023 - eeer.org
Over the last two decades, scientific communities have been more interested in turning
organic waste materials into bioenergy. Microbial fuel cells (MFC) can degrade organic …

Electroactive biofilms: current status and future research needs

AP Borole, G Reguera, B Ringeisen… - Energy & …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Electroactive biofilms (EABFs) generated by electrochemically active microorganisms have
many potential applications in bioenergy and chemicals production. Biofilm electroactivity …

Process engineering for stable power recovery from dairy wastewater using microbial fuel cell

P Choudhury, RN Ray, TK Bandyopadhyay… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are one of the sustainable technologies that can effectively treat
wastewater with concomitant generation of electricity. The present study investigated the …

Microbial solar cells: applying photosynthetic and electrochemically active organisms

DP Strik, RA Timmers, M Helder, KJJ Steinbusch… - Trends in …, 2011 - cell.com
Microbial solar cells (MSCs) are recently developed technologies that utilize solar energy to
produce electricity or chemicals. MSCs use photoautotrophic microorganisms or higher …

Biofilm formation and electricity generation of a microbial fuel cell started up under different external resistances

L Zhang, X Zhu, J Li, Q Liao, D Ye - Journal of Power Sources, 2011 - Elsevier
To investigate the effects of external resistance on the biofilm formation and electricity
generation of microbial fuel cells (MFCs), active biomass, the content of extracellular …

Influence of external resistance on electrogenesis, methanogenesis, and anode prokaryotic communities in microbial fuel cells

S Jung, JM Regan - Applied and environmental microbiology, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
The external resistance (R ext) of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) regulates both the anode
availability as an electron acceptor and the electron flux through the circuit. We evaluated …

Microbial fuel cells meet with external resistance

KP Katuri, K Scott, IM Head, C Picioreanu… - Bioresource technology, 2011 - Elsevier
The influence of external load on the composition of the anodic biofilm microbial community
and biomass yield was investigated in a microbial fuel cell fed with glucose and domestic …

A novel microbial fuel cell stack for continuous production of clean energy

M Rahimnejad, AA Ghoreyshi, GD Najafpour… - International journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Production of sustainable and clean energy through oxidation of biodegradable materials
was carried out in a novel stack of microbial fuel cells (MFCs). Saccharomyces cerevisiae as …