An overview of microbial fuel cell usage in wastewater treatment, resource recovery and energy production

C Munoz-Cupa, Y Hu, C Xu, A Bassi - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Wastewater treatment is a high-cost and energy-intensive process not only due to large
amounts of pollutants but also for the large volumes of water to be treated, which are mainly …

Oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalysis in neutral media for bioelectrochemical systems

C Santoro, P Bollella, B Erable, P Atanassov, D Pant - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is an electrochemical process of the utmost
importance in energy conversion and storage, corrosion and chemical technologies. The …

Microbial fuel cells: An overview of current technology

AJ Slate, KA Whitehead, DAC Brownson… - … and sustainable energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Research into alternative renewable energy generation is a priority, due to the ever-
increasing concern of climate change. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are one potential avenue …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial fuel cell as new technology for bioelectricity generation: A review

M Rahimnejad, A Adhami, S Darvari, A Zirepour… - Alexandria Engineering …, 2015 - Elsevier
Recently, great attentions have been paid to microbial fuel cells (MFCs) due to their mild
operating conditions and using variety of biodegradable substrates as fuel. The traditional …

A review of recent advances in electrode materials for emerging bioelectrochemical systems: From biofilm-bearing anodes to specialized cathodes

AA Mier, H Olvera-Vargas, M Mejía-López, A Longoria… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Bioelectrochemical systems (BES), mainly microbial fuel cells (MEC) and microbial
electrolysis cells (MFC), are unique biosystems that use electroactive bacteria (EAB) to …

Enhanced antibiotic wastewater degradation by intimately coupled B-Bi3O4Cl photocatalysis and biodegradation reactor: Elucidating degradation principle …

Y Dong, D Xu, J Zhang, Q Wang, S Pang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Intimately coupled photocatalysis and biodegradation (ICPB) is an emerging technology that
has potential applications in the degradation of bio-recalcitrant pollutants. However, the …

Microbial fuel cell: A green eco-friendly agent for tannery wastewater treatment and simultaneous bioelectricity/power generation

C Saran, D Purchase, GD Saratale, RG Saratale… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
This review paper emphasised on the origin of hexavalent chromium toxicity in tannery
wastewater and its remediation using novel Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) technology, including …

Recent progress in electrodes for microbial fuel cells

J Wei, P Liang, X Huang - Bioresource technology, 2011 - Elsevier
The performance and cost of electrodes are the most important aspects in the design of
microbial fuel cell (MFC) reactors. A wide range of electrode materials and configurations …

Electrosynthesis of organic compounds from carbon dioxide is catalyzed by a diversity of acetogenic microorganisms

KP Nevin, SA Hensley, AE Franks… - Applied and …, 2011 - journals.asm.org
Microbial electrosynthesis, a process in which microorganisms use electrons derived from
electrodes to reduce carbon dioxide to multicarbon, extracellular organic compounds, is a …

Biotransformation of carbon dioxide in bioelectrochemical systems: State of the art and future prospects

S Bajracharya, S Srikanth, G Mohanakrishna… - Journal of Power …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Carbon dioxide (CO 2) utilization/recycling for the production of chemicals and
gaseous/liquid energy-carriers is a way to moderate the rising CO 2 in the atmosphere. One …