An overview of microbial fuel cell usage in wastewater treatment, resource recovery and energy production

C Munoz-Cupa, Y Hu, C Xu, A Bassi - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Wastewater treatment is a high-cost and energy-intensive process not only due to large
amounts of pollutants but also for the large volumes of water to be treated, which are mainly …

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 …

A comprehensive review on microbial fuel cell technologies: Processes, utilization, and advanced developments in electrodes and membranes

G Palanisamy, HY Jung, T Sadhasivam… - Journal of cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cells have gained great interest as an alternative energy conversion system
for generating bioenergy. As a bioelectrochemical hybrid system, microbial fuel cells …

Microbial fuel cells for bioelectricity production from waste as sustainable prospect of future energy sector

AT Hoang, S Nižetić, KH Ng, AM Papadopoulos, AT Le… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is lauded for its potentials to solve both energy crisis and
environmental pollution. Technologically, it offers the capability to harness electricity from …

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) for bioelectrochemical treatment of different wastewater streams

SS Kumar, V Kumar, SK Malyan, J Sharma… - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
Wastewaters generated from several industrial sources containing organic substrates
present a vital basis for harnessing bioenergy. Aerobic wastewater treatment methods, for …

Recent advances in the use of different substrates in microbial fuel cells toward wastewater treatment and simultaneous energy recovery

P Pandey, VN Shinde, RL Deopurkar, SP Kale, SA Patil… - Applied Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
The interest in the use of electroactive microorganisms for different applications by means of
bioelectrochemical systems (BES) has been constantly increasing since the last decade …

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 …

Bioelectricity production from kitchen wastewater using microbial fuel cell with photosynthetic algal cathode

SN Mohamed, PA Hiraman, K Muthukumar… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, the treatment of kitchen wastewater was demonstrated using microbial fuel cell
(MFC) consisting photosynthetic microorganism as cathode catalyst. The power density and …

Harvest and utilization of chemical energy in wastes by microbial fuel cells

M Sun, LF Zhai, WW Li, HQ Yu - Chemical society reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic wastes are now increasingly viewed as a resource of energy that can be harvested
by suitable biotechnologies. One promising technology is microbial fuel cells (MFC), which …

Recent progress and perspectives in microbial fuel cells for bioenergy generation and wastewater treatment

FJ Hernández-Fernández, AP De Los Ríos… - Fuel Processing …, 2015 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) use bacteria to convert the chemical energy of a particular
substrate contained in wastewater into electrical energy. This is achieved when bacteria …