Organic waste substrates for bioenergy production via microbial fuel cells: a key point review

MG Savvidou, PK Pandis, D Mamma, G Sourkouni… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
High-energy consumption globally has raised questions about the low environmentally
friendly and high-cost processes used until now for energy production. Microbial fuel cells …

Platinum group metal-free catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction: Applications in microbial fuel cells

MA Costa de Oliveira, A D'Epifanio, H Ohnuki… - Catalysts, 2020 - mdpi.com
Scientific and technological innovation is increasingly playing a role for promoting the
transition towards a circular economy and sustainable development. Thanks to its dual …

Microbial fuel cells: Devices for real wastewater treatment, rather than electricity production

J Yu, Y Park, E Widyaningsih, S Kim, Y Kim… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
For last two decades, various microbial fuel cells have been studied to treat real wastewater
and simultaneously produce electricity. The performance of 106 MFCs using real …

A critical view of microbial fuel cells: what is the next stage?

S Mateo, P Cañizares, FJ Fernandez‐Morales… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have garnered interest from the scientific community since the
beginning of this century and this has caused a considerable increase in the scientific …

Cobalt recovery from the stripping solution of spent lithium-ion battery by a three-dimensional microbial fuel cell

T Huang, D Song, L Liu, S Zhang - Separation and Purification Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Cobalt (Co) recycling from the spent LIBs not only favors the ecological protection also
meets the supply chain of Co in the international market. In this research, a three …

Impact of inoculum type on the microbial community and power performance of urine-fed microbial fuel cells

MJ Salar-Garcia, O Obata, H Kurt, K Chandran… - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
Bacteria are the driving force of the microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology, which benefits from
their natural ability to degrade organic matter and generate electricity. The development of …

Self-induced bioelectro-potential influence on sulfate removal and desalination in microbial fuel cell

M Hemalatha, JS Sravan, SV Mohan - Bioresource technology, 2020 - Elsevier
This study focused on treatment of sulfate-rich produced water (PW) using microbial fuel cell
(MFC) with biotic anode (bAC) and abiotic cathode (aCC) separated by a cation exchange …

Next‐Generation Proton‐Exchange Membranes in Microbial Fuel Cells: Overcoming Nafion's Limitations

A Sharma, L Đelević, K Herkendell - Energy Technology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The adoption of microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology hinges on the development of efficient
proton‐exchange membranes (PEMs), which significantly influences fuel cell performance …

Valorization and co-treatment of hazardous petroleum refinery oily sludge and sewage associated with bioenergy recovery in tubular microbial fuel cell

RM Khazaal, ZZ Ismail - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023 - Springer
Petroleum refineries generate large amounts of oily sludge which is normally loaded with
different residual hazardous petroleum derivatives. Also, the residential complexes affiliated …

Flow analysis based on cathodic current using different designs of channel distribution in PEM fuel cells

MA Zamora-Antuñano, PE Orozco Pimentel… - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this work, a physical and numerical simulation of cathodic current for different designs of
the channel distribution in PEM fuel cells was carried out. The first design consisted …