Review on microbial fuel cells applications, developments and costs

JV Boas, VB Oliveira, M Simões, AMFR Pinto - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology has attracted significant attention in the last years
due to its potential to recover energy in a wastewater treatment. The idea of using an MFC in …

A comprehensive review on microbial fuel cell technologies: Processes, utilization, and advanced developments in electrodes and membranes

G Palanisamy, HY Jung, T Sadhasivam… - Journal of cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cells have gained great interest as an alternative energy conversion system
for generating bioenergy. As a bioelectrochemical hybrid system, microbial fuel cells …

Plant microbial fuel cell: opportunities, challenges, and prospects

S Maddalwar, KK Nayak, M Kumar, L Singh - Bioresource Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are considered as greener technologies for generation of
bioenergy and simultaneously treatment of wastewater. However, the major drawback of …

Microbial fuel cell is emerging as a versatile technology: a review on its possible applications, challenges and strategies to improve the performances

R Kumar, L Singh, AW Zularisam… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are emerging as a versatile renewable energy technology. This
is particularly because of the multidimensional applications of this eco‐friendly technology …

Technologies for recovering nutrients from wastewater: a critical review

MK Perera, JD Englehardt, AC Dvorak - Environmental Engineering …, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Phosphorus (P) is a non-renewable resource, production of nitrogen (N) fertilizer is energy
intensive, and discharge of these nutrients in treated wastewater causes environmental …

Nutrient recovery from wastewater and reuse in agriculture: A review

TD Saliu, NA Oladoja - Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2021 - Springer
Nutrient recovery from wastewater and recycling nutrients as soil fertilizers is a major
challenge for the future circular economy. This is motivated by unregulated discharge of …

Bio-electrochemical COD removal for energy-efficient, maximum and robust nitrogen recovery from urine through membrane aerated nitrification

J De Paepe, K De Paepe, F Gòdia, K Rabaey… - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Resource recovery from source-separated urine can shorten nutrient cycles on Earth and is
essential in regenerative life support systems for deep-space exploration. In this study, a …

Struvite crystallization by using active serpentine: An innovative application for the economical and efficient recovery of phosphorus from black water

X Li, X Zhao, J Zhang, J Hao, Q Zhang - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Recovery of phosphorus from wastewater through struvite crystallization is one of the most
attractive methods. However, the cost of chemical consumption makes this technology is …

A glance of coupled water and wastewater treatment systems based on microbial fuel cells

Y Huang, Y Zhao, C Tang, AK Yadav, R Abbassi… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a variant of the bioelectrochemical system that uses
microorganisms as biocatalysts to generate bioenergy by oxidizing organic matter. Due to its …

Systematic evaluation of emerging wastewater nutrient removal and recovery technologies to inform practice and advance resource efficiency

A Kogler, MK Farmer, JA Simon, S Tilmans… - ACS ES&T …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Advancing nutrient recovery from idea to implementation requires reporting practices that
facilitate comparison among diverse nutrient removal and recovery (NRR) technologies and …