Progress in microbial fuel cell technology for wastewater treatment and energy harvesting

H Gul, W Raza, J Lee, M Azam, M Ashraf, KH Kim - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The global energy crisis has stimulated the development of various forms of green energy
technology such as microbial fuel cells (MFCs) that can be applied synergistically and …

A mini review on bio-electrochemical systems for the treatment of azo dye wastewater: State-of-the-art and future prospects

L Sun, Y Mo, L Zhang - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Azo dyes are typical toxic and refractory organic pollutants widely used in the textile industry.
Bio-electrochemical systems (BESs) have great potential for the treatment of azo dyes with …

Microbial fuel cell (MFC) power performance improvement through enhanced microbial electrogenicity

M Li, M Zhou, X Tian, C Tan, CT McDaniel… - Biotechnology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Within the past 5 years, tremendous advances have been made to maximize the
performance of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) for both “clean” bioenergy production and …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in biological approaches towards anode biofilm engineering for improvement of extracellular electron transfer in microbial fuel cells

T Naaz, A Kumar, A Vempaty, N Singhal… - Environmental …, 2023 - eeer.org
Over the last two decades, scientific communities have been more interested in turning
organic waste materials into bioenergy. Microbial fuel cells (MFC) can degrade organic …

Anode biofilm maturation time, stable cell performance time, and time-course electrochemistry in a single-chamber microbial fuel cell with a brush-anode

HVH Tran, E Kim, SP Jung - Journal of Industrial and Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
For accurate and reproducible MFC experiments, it is important to know when MFCs
produce stable cell performance. Herein, four replicate single-chamber MFCs were tested …

Microbial fuel cell: critical factors regulating bio-catalyzed electrochemical process and recent advancements

SV Mohan, G Velvizhi, JA Modestra… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2014 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cells (MFC) are bio-catalyzed electrochemical hybrid systems which function
by converting chemical energy to electrical energy through a cascade of redox reactions in …

Geobacter: the microbe electric's physiology, ecology, and practical applications

DR Lovley, T Ueki, T Zhang, NS Malvankar… - Advances in microbial …, 2011 - Elsevier
Geobacter species specialize in making electrical contacts with extracellular electron
acceptors and other organisms. This permits Geobacter species to fill important niches in a …

Microbial fuel cell coupled Fenton oxidation for the cathodic degradation of emerging contaminants from wastewater: Applications and challenges

SM Sathe, I Chakraborty, BK Dubey… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urbanization and industrialization have resulted in the escalation of the occurrence of
emerging contaminants (EC) in the wastewater and ultimately to the receiving water bodies …

A novel pico-hydro power (PHP)-Microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) coupled system for sustainable hydrogen production during palm oil mill effluent (POME) wastewater …

A Kadier, R Singh, D Song, F Ghanbari, NS Zaidi… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to accelerating global efforts toward decarbonization, a clean hydrogen (H 2) producing
technology, Microbial Electrolysis Cell (MEC), has garnered considerable attention …