Recent advances in the use of different substrates in microbial fuel cells toward wastewater treatment and simultaneous energy recovery

P Pandey, VN Shinde, RL Deopurkar, SP Kale, SA Patil… - Applied Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
The interest in the use of electroactive microorganisms for different applications by means of
bioelectrochemical systems (BES) has been constantly increasing since the last decade …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Application of microbial fuel cell (MFC) for pharmaceutical wastewater treatment: an overview and future perspectives

BS Thapa, S Pandit, SB Patwardhan, S Tripathi… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Pharmaceutical wastewater (PWW) is rapidly growing into one of the world's most serious
environmental and public health issues. Existing wastewater treatment systems carry …

Lignin depolymerization and biotransformation to industrially important chemicals/biofuels

NL Radhika, S Sachdeva, M Kumar - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Lignin is a potential feedstock due to its energy content and its abundant availability from
biomass based biorefinery. Among the different fractions of biomass, lignin has been under …

Microbial catalyzed electrochemical systems: a bio-factory with multi-facet applications

SV Mohan, G Velvizhi, KV Krishna, ML Babu - Bioresource Technology, 2014 - Elsevier
Microbial catalyzed electrochemical systems (MCES) have been intensively pursued in both
basic and applied research as a futuristic and sustainable platform specifically in harnessing …

Surpassing the current limitations of high purity H2 production in microbial electrolysis cell (MECs): Strategies for inhibiting growth of methanogens

A Kadier, MS Kalil, K Chandrasekhar… - …, 2018 - Elsevier
Microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) are perceived as a potential and promising innovative
biotechnological tool that can convert carbon-rich waste biomass or wastewater into …

A state-of-the-art on the application of nanotechnology for enhanced biohydrogen production

B Karthikeyan, G Velvizhi - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Carbon footprint reductions through the use of renewable bio-resources are an appealing
path to develop sustainable and economically viable green energy production. Biohydrogen …

Recent advances in energy efficient biological treatment of municipal wastewater

A Daverey, D Pandey, P Verma, S Verma… - Bioresource Technology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Conventional municipal wastewater treatment plants based on the activated sludge process
are neither energy efficient nor economical. Various technologies (eg, anaerobic treatment …

Enzymatic electrosynthesis of formate through CO2 sequestration/reduction in a bioelectrochemical system (BES)

S Srikanth, M Maesen, X Dominguez-Benetton… - Bioresource …, 2014 - Elsevier
Bioelectrochemical system (BES) was operated using the enzyme formate dehydrogenase
as catalyst at cathode in its free form for the reduction of CO 2 into formic acid …

Bioelectrochemical conversion of waste to energy using microbial fuel cell technology

MD Khan, N Khan, S Sultana, R Joshi, S Ahmed… - Process …, 2017 - Elsevier
Numerous traditional methods are available for the conversion of waste to energy (WTE)
such as incineration, anaerobic digestion, pyrolysis, gasification. Most of them suffer from …