Microbial fuel cells a state-of-the-art technology for wastewater treatment and bioelectricity generation

S Mohyudin, R Farooq, F Jubeen, T Rasheed… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wastewater treatment and electricity generation have been the major concerns for the last
few years. The scarcity of fossil fuels has led to the development of unconventional energy …

Oxygen reduction reaction catalysts used in microbial fuel cells for energy-efficient wastewater treatment: a review

H Yuan, Y Hou, IM Abu-Reesh, J Chen, Z He - Materials Horizons, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) as an energy-efficient wastewater treatment technology have
attracted increasing interest in the past decade. Cathode catalysts for the oxygen reduction …

Cathodic catalysts in bioelectrochemical systems for energy recovery from wastewater

XW Liu, WW Li, HQ Yu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs), in which microorganisms are utilized as a self-
regenerable catalyst at the anode of an electrochemical cell to directly extract electrical …

Microbial fuel cells for mineralization and decolorization of azo dyes: Recent advances in design and materials

A Yadav, P Kumar, D Rawat, S Garg… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) exhibit tremendous potential in the sustainable management of
dye wastewater via degrading azo dyes while generating electricity. The past decade has …

Electron acceptors for energy generation in microbial fuel cells fed with wastewaters: a mini-review

CS He, ZX Mu, HY Yang, YZ Wang, Y Mu, HQ Yu - Chemosphere, 2015 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have gained tremendous global interest over the last decades as
a device that uses bacteria to oxidize organic and inorganic matters in the anode with …

Carbon dioxide sequestration and wastewater treatment via an innovative self-sustaining algal microbial fuel cell

T Kumar, SE Jujjavarapu - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
In this research, the utilization of an algal assisted-microbial fuel cell (AMFC) that employed
photosynthetic microorganisms as cathode catalysts was demonstrated for the treatment of …

Degradation of azo dye (acid orange 7) in a microbial fuel cell: comparison between anodic microbial-mediated reduction and cathodic laccase-mediated oxidation

P Mani, VT Fidal, K Bowman, M Breheny… - Frontiers in Energy …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
More than 80% of wastewater from industries is discharged into receiving water bodies
without any pollution control. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are a promising technology for the …

Decolorization of azo dye and generation of electricity by microbial fuel cell with laccase-producing white-rot fungus on cathode

CY Lai, CH Wu, CT Meng, CW Lin - Applied Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Wood-degrading white-rot fungi produce many extracellular enzymes, including the multi-
copper oxidative enzyme laccase (EC 1.10. 3.2). Laccase uses atmospheric oxygen as the …

Progress in microbial fuel cells for sustainable management of industrial effluents

N Tabassum, N Islam, S Ahmed - Process Biochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology is a promising solution for both organic and inorganic
effluent treatment, as it is capable of handling a variety of complex contaminants with …

Microbial fuel cells for dye decolorization

R Ilamathi, J Jayapriya - Environmental chemistry letters, 2018 - Springer
Microbial fuel cells are used for energy production, zero carbon dioxide emission and
wastewater remediation. Textile industrial effluents contain organic and inorganic …