Plant microbial fuel cell: opportunities, challenges, and prospects

S Maddalwar, KK Nayak, M Kumar, L Singh - Bioresource Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are considered as greener technologies for generation of
bioenergy and simultaneously treatment of wastewater. However, the major drawback of …

A review of recent advances in electrode materials for emerging bioelectrochemical systems: From biofilm-bearing anodes to specialized cathodes

AA Mier, H Olvera-Vargas, M Mejía-López, A Longoria… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Bioelectrochemical systems (BES), mainly microbial fuel cells (MEC) and microbial
electrolysis cells (MFC), are unique biosystems that use electroactive bacteria (EAB) to …

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 …

Improvement of zero waste sustainable recovery using microbial energy generation systems: A comprehensive review

W Apollon, I Rusyn, N González-Gamboa… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microbial energy generation systems, ie, bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) are promising
sustainable technologies that have been used in different fields of application such as …

Role of microbial community and plant species in performance of plant microbial fuel cells

I Rusyn - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Plant microbial fuel cells (PMFCs) are an innovative, promising and environmentally friendly
way of renewable bioelectricity generation. The method of PMFCs consists in electrode …

Progress and recent trends in photosynthetic assisted microbial fuel cells: a review

W Apollon, AI Luna-Maldonado, SK Kamaraj… - Biomass and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Bioelectrochemical systems (BES) such as microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and plant microbial
fuel cells (P-MFCs) are renewable energy sources, which have been developed for various …

Bioelectrochemical systems: sustainable bio-energy powerhouses

MM Gul, KS Ahmad - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2019 - Elsevier
Bioelectrochemical systems comprise of several types of cells, from basic microbial fuel cells
(MFC) to photosynthetic MFCs and from plant MFCs to biophotovoltaics. All these cells …

Plant microbial fuel cells as an innovative, versatile agro-technology for green energy generation combined with wastewater treatment and food production

T Kuleshova, A Rao, S Bhadra, VK Garlapati… - Biomass and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The review considers a new direction of bioelectrochemical systems–plant-microbial fuel
cells (pMFC to generate environmentally friendly bioelectricity and wastewater treatment …

Experimental investigation of tar arresting techniques and their evaluation for product syngas cleaning from bubbling fluidized bed gasifier

IU Hai, F Sher, G Zarren, H Liu - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
Hazardous waste products along with the syngas produced from biomass gasification are
one of the major problems of today world. Tar and other solid contaminants removal from …

Microbial fuel cells (MFC) and microalgae; photo microbial fuel cell (PMFC) as complete recycling machines

J Greenman, I Gajda, I Ieropoulos - Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Humans can exploit natural processes by microorganisms by using Microbial Fuel Cells and
integrated Photo Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC/PMFC) chambers containing electrodes to …