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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Microbial Fuel Cells"”.
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Bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons using microbial fuel cells
… things (including mankind) largely depend. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) could be employed in the treatment of these environmental pollutants with concomitant bioelectricity generation. Therefore, the overarching objective of this study was to develop an MFC system for the effective and …
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Anode Material Testing for Marine Sediment Microbial Fuel Cells
<p>Research on the power production of the microbial fuel cell has increased in the past decade. The sediment microbial fuel cell is a type of fuel cell that uses the environment of submerged sediments to provide a natural voltage difference. The fuel cell is comprised of an anode buried in the …
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Enhancing energy recovery from industrial wastewater using microbial fuel cells
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) hold great promise for the simultaneous treatment of wastewater and electricity production. However, the electricity recovery needs improvement if MFCs are to compete with already established technologies e.g. anaerobic digestion. The aim of this study was to investigate …
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DEVELOPMENT OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS FOR AZO DYE DEGRADATION
… pollution. In this study, photosynthetic microbial fuel cells (PMFCs) were investigated as a sustainable biological treatment strategy capable of degrading azo dyes while simultaneously generating bioelectricity. The model dye Acid Orange-7 (AO-7) was treated using Rhodopseudomonas …
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Engineering of Microbial Fuel Cells technology: Materials, Modelling and Architecture
A Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a bio-electrochemical reactor, able to convert chemical energy, contained in organic substrate, in electrical energy, thanks to the metabolic activity of microorganisms. Firstly, a fluid-dynamic modelling of different Microbial Fuel Cell configurations to study …
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Treatment of azo dyes in industrial wastewater using microbial fuel cells
… waste streams. Therefore, in this study, microbial fuel cells (MFCs) were studied as possible systems that could effectively degrade azo dyes with an additional benefit of concomitant biogenic electricity generation. The co-metabolic degradation of the model azo dye Acid Orange-7 (AO-7) …
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Systems Approaches to Enhance Performance and Applicability of Microbial Fuel Cells
… be considered. One such contender might be the microbial fuel cell (MFC), a subset of bioelectrochemical system (BES) which generates electricity in the process of electrogenic (generating electrons) degradation of soluble organic contaminants present in the water (or wastewater) by electrogens …
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Improving bio-electricity production and waste stabilization in Microbial Fuel Cells
… sustainable processes are sought, such as Microbial fuel cells (MFC) where electrogenic bacteria can degrade organic matter present in the waste stream while simultaneously generating electricity. MFCs represent an emerging technology which may deliver the capability to reduce the pollution …
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The development and performance of anodic biofilms in microbial fuel cells
Microbial fuel cell (MFC) systems capable of both treating wastewaters and recovering energy have the potential for successful scale-up as a low carbon technology. These systems utilize microorganisms residing in biofilms as biocatalytic agents in the conversion of reduced substrates to electrical …
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MANGANESE OXIDE AS A NEW CATHODE CATALYST IN MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS (MFCs)
… to replace platinum as a cathode catalyst in microbial fuel cells (MFCs). Undoped (ud-OSM-2) and three catalysts doped with cobalt (Co-OMS-2), copper (Cu-OMS-2), and cerium (Ce-OMS-2) to enhance their catalytic performances were investigated. The novel OMS-2 cathodes were examined in granular …
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The development and operation of plant microbial fuel cells using municipal sludge
… than which is required to treat it. A sediment microbial fuel cell (SMFC) can potentially be used to treat wastewater and produce electricity by utilising the organics found in the wastewater. The challenge associated with using SMFCs is efficiency and longevity. Literature has shown that the …
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Integrating Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) into the treatment of sulphate-rich wastewater
The use of laboratory scale Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) for the combined generation of electricity and the treatment of wastewater has been well documented in literature. In addition to this the integration of MFCs into wastewater treatment reactors has also been shown to have several benefits. …
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Electrical Power Generation in Microbial Fuel Cells Using Carbon Nanostructure Enhanced Anodes
Microbial fuel cells (MiFCs) have been suggested as a means to harness energy that is otherwise unutilized during the wastewater treatment process. MiFCs have the unique ability to treat influent waste streams while simultaneously generating power which can offset energy associated with the …
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Energy-efficient Wastewater Treatment by Microbial Fuel Cells: Scaling Up and Optimization
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are potentially advantageous as an energy-efficient approach to wastewater treatment. For single-chamber tubular MFCs, anode effluent is used as catholyte instead of tap water or buffer solutions. Therefore, exposing cathode electrode to atmosphere could be also …
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Microbial fuel cells coupled with open pond for wastewater treatment: is it viable?
Sediment microbial fuel cell (SMFC) is a special type of microbial fuel cells that can be deployed in a natural water body for energy production and contaminant removal. This MS project aims to explore whether it will be viable to apply SMFCs for wastewater treatment. Experimental SMFCs were …
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MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS AS A PROMISING TECHNOLOGY FOR SIMULTANEOUS WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND BIOELECTRICITY GENERATION
… and more efficient waste treatment methods. Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) are a new but promising bioremediation technology for simultaneous wastewater treatment and bioelectricity generation. Through converting the chemical energy stored in waste into electrical energy through extracellular …
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Numerical Analysis of Multiphase Flow in Bubble Columns and Applications for Microbial Fuel Cells
… domain. Additionally, the reaction chamber of a microbial fuel cell (MFC) was modeled and a preliminary parameter study investigating inlet velocity, temperature, and acetate concentration was conducted. MFCs are used in wastewater treatment and have the potential to treat water while …
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