Recent advancement in scaling-up applications of microbial fuel cells: from reality to practicability

DA Jadhav, AK Mungray, A Arkatkar… - … Energy Technologies and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the current scenario, application of microbial fuel cell (MFC) is limited at laboratory scale
for wastewater treatment and energy recovery. Scaling-up applications of MFC are …

Microbial fuel cells: a sustainable solution for bioelectricity generation and wastewater treatment

HM Singh, AK Pathak, K Chopra, VV Tyagi, S Anand… - Biofuels, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is an advance device to contend with three-
dimensional problems of fossil fuel-based energy production with high-cost and pollution …

Moving towards practical applications of microbial fuel cells for sanitation and resource recovery

DA Jadhav, I Das, MM Ghangrekar, D Pant - Journal of Water Process …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sanitation is the basic quality index of life and proper sanitation practices play a vital role in
maintaining the hygienic conditions. Use of human waste (urine and faeces) as a substrate …

Scale up of microbial fuel cell stack system for residential wastewater treatment in continuous mode operation

R Valladares Linares, J Domínguez-Maldonado… - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
The most important operational expense during wastewater treatment is electricity for
pumping and aeration. Therefore, this work evaluated operational parameters and …

Microbial fuel cell united with other existing technologies for enhanced power generation and efficient wastewater treatment

SB Patwardhan, N Savla, S Pandit, PK Gupta… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, the world is experiencing an energy crisis due to extensive globalization and
industrialization. Most of the sources of renewable energy are getting depleted, and thus …

A decade of plant-assisted microbial fuel cells: looking back and moving forward

R Regmi, R Nitisoravut, J Ketchaimongkol - Biofuels, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Plant microbial fuel cells (PMFCs) have emerged as a renewable source of energy that can
produce concurrent bioelectricity and biomass continuously in a clean, sustainable and …

Integrating bioelectrochemical systems for sustainable wastewater treatment

VG Gude - Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 2018 - Springer
Current wastewater treatment processes such as activated sludge process and other
aeration technologies are resource-consuming and are unsustainable. Novel and integrated …

Carbon Footprint and Energy Recovery Potential of Primary Wastewater Treatment in Decentralized Areas: A Critical Review on Septic and Imhoff Tanks

R Boiocchi, M Mainardis, EC Rada, M Ragazzi… - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
The present work is a critical review on the carbon footprint and energy recovery potential of
septic and Imhoff tanks for primary wastewater treatment. From an online search of research …

Bioelectrochemical behaviour of a sequentially added biocatalytic coculture in a microbial fuel cell

A Arkatkar, AK Mungray… - Journal of basic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial isolates Pseudomonas aeruginosa BR, Alcaligenes faecalis SW and Escherichia
coli EC from a microbial fuel cell (MFC) were cocultured with each other. The isolates were …

Integrating human waste with microbial fuel cells to elevate the production of bioelectricity

C Pandit, BS Thapa, B Srivastava, AS Mathuriya… - BioTech, 2022 - mdpi.com
Due to the continuous depletion of natural resources currently used for electricity generation,
it is imperative to develop alternative energy sources. Human waste is nowadays being …