Impact of reactor configuration on pilot-scale microbial fuel cell performance

R Rossi, BE Logan - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Different microbial fuel cell (MFC) configurations have been successfully operated at pilot-
scale levels (> 100 L) to demonstrate electricity generation while accomplishing domestic or …

Engineering wired life: synthetic biology for electroactive bacteria

LJ Bird, BB Kundu, T Tschirhart, AD Corts… - ACS Synthetic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electroactive bacteria produce or consume electrical current by moving electrons to and
from extracellular acceptors and donors. This specialized process, known as extracellular …

Pilot scale microbial fuel cells using air cathodes for producing electricity while treating wastewater

R Rossi, AY Hur, MA Page, AOB Thomas… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) can generate electrical energy from the oxidation of the organic
matter, but they must be demonstrated at large scales, treat real wastewaters, and show the …

Insights into the development of microbial fuel cells for generating biohydrogen, bioelectricity, and treating wastewater

SF Ahmed, M Mofijur, N Islam, TA Parisa, N Rafa… - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Bio-electrochemical systems, such as microbial fuel cells (MFCs), serve as greener
alternatives to conventional fuel energy. Despite the burgeoning review works on MFCs …

Using an anion exchange membrane for effective hydroxide ion transport enables high power densities in microbial fuel cells

R Rossi, BE Logan - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
High current densities have been obtained by bioanodes in electrochemical cells, but this
performance has not previously been translated into higher power densities in microbial fuel …

Impact of cathodic electron acceptor on microbial fuel cell internal resistance

K Lawson, R Rossi, JM Regan, BE Logan - Bioresource technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Ferricyanide is often used in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) to avoid oxygen intrusion that
occurs with air cathodes. However, MFC internal resistances using ferricyanide can be …

Vapor-fed cathode microbial electrolysis cells with closely spaced electrodes enables greatly improved performance

R Rossi, G Baek, BE Logan - Environmental Science & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen can be electrochemically produced in microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) by
current generated from bacterial anodes with a small added voltage. MECs typically use a …

Using nickel-molybdenum cathode catalysts for efficient hydrogen gas production in microbial electrolysis cells

R Rossi, J Nicolas, BE Logan - Journal of Power Sources, 2023 - Elsevier
A low-cost cathode catalyst based on a NiMo alloy was examined here to replace noble
metals for the hydrogen production in microbial electrolysis cells (MECs). Two NiMo …

Facilitating proton transport by endowing forward osmosis membrane with proton conductive sites in osmotic microbial fuel cell

E Tian, Y Liu, F Yin, S Lu, L Zheng, X Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
A major challenge of the osmotic microbial fuel cell (OsMFC) application is the sluggish
proton transport from anode to cathode. As a result, an extra overpotential is caused by the …

Accurate measurement of internal resistance in microbial fuel cells by improved scanning electrochemical impedance spectroscopy

B Kim, IS Chang, RM Dinsdale, AJ Guwy - Electrochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, a scanning electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) technique is
proposed to confirm the variation of internal resistance (R int) including charge transfer …