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] Technologies for biological removal and recovery of nitrogen from wastewater

S Rahimi, O Modin, I Mijakovic - Biotechnology Advances, 2020 - Elsevier
Water contamination is a growing environmental issue. Several harmful effects on human
health and the environment are attributed to nitrogen contamination of water sources …

Food waste biorefinery: Sustainable strategy for circular bioeconomy

S Dahiya, AN Kumar, JS Sravan, S Chatterjee… - Bioresource …, 2018 - Elsevier
Enormous quantity of food waste (FW) is becoming a global concern. To address this
persistent problem, sustainable interventions with green technologies are essential. FW can …

Opportunities and challenges for combining chemo-and biocatalysis

F Rudroff, MD Mihovilovic, H Gröger, R Snajdrova… - Nature Catalysis, 2018 - nature.com
The past decade has seen a substantial increase in successful examples of the combination
of chemo-and biocatalysis for multistep syntheses. This is driven by obvious advantages …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial fuel cells: Insight into simultaneous wastewater treatment and bioelectricity generation

A Nawaz, I ul Haq, K Qaisar, B Gunes, SI Raja… - Process Safety and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Burgeoning industrialization has escalated the energy demand and amplified the insistence
on depleting petroleum-based reservoirs. Subsequently, this has imposed a study to …

Advances in microbial fuel cells for wastewater treatment

L He, P Du, Y Chen, H Lu, X Cheng, B Chang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Resources scarcity and electricity demand have been dramatically increasing. Wastewater
is recognized as one of resources for water, energy and plant fertilizing nutrients …

Engineering extracellular electron transfer pathways of electroactive microorganisms by synthetic biology for energy and chemicals production

J Zhang, F Li, D Liu, Q Liu, H Song - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The excessive consumption of fossil fuels causes massive emission of CO2, leading to
climate deterioration and environmental pollution. The development of substitutes and …

Scalability of microbial electrochemical technologies: Applications and challenges

DA Jadhav, SG Park, S Pandit, E Yang… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
During wastewater treatment, microbial electrochemical technologies (METs) are a
promising means for in situ energy harvesting and resource recovery. The primary constraint …

Recent developments on functional nanomaterial-based electrodes for microbial fuel cells

R Kaur, A Marwaha, VA Chhabra, KH Kim… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
For a fuel cell, key figures of merit for operation are recognized as efficiency and low costs
(for manufacturing and operating). Conversion of chemical energy to electrical energy via …

An overview of plant microbial fuel cells (PMFCs): Configurations and applications

FT Kabutey, Q Zhao, L Wei, J Ding, P Antwi… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
The depletion of non-renewable energy resources has led to the exploitation of alternative
renewable sources such as solar energy, which is mainly employed to generate electricity …