Microbial fuel cells for electricity generation and environmental bioremediation
- Title
- Microbial fuel cells for electricity generation and environmental bioremediation
- Creator
- Inchara M.N.; Mayegowda S.B.; Manjula N.G.
- Description
- The environmental impact on the use of fossil fuels and their unsustainable nature has led to the development of techniques using renewable energy and fuel cells. The recent decade has captured the attention of scientists towards the importance of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) with the role of microbial ability in converting organic wastes directly to electricity through microbially catalyzed anodic reactions along with microbial/enzymatic cathodic electrochemical reactions. MFC represents an environmental friendly approach for the use of generating electricity using wastewater, thus ensuring a bioremedial approach for effluent treatment with the achievement of chemical oxygen demand (COD) of about 50% chemical oxygen demand and power densities. This MFC utilises microbial metabolism for electricity generation. The overall performance of electricigens or MFC is based on the reactor design, operating conditions, electrode material used, types of substrates, and microorganisms involved. The optimization parameters studies for commercial production and their applications for MFC need to be intensified. Microbes have applications as biopolymer electrolytes that can be variously used in the applications of batteries, fuel cells and dye-sensitized solar cells. The use of MFCs has many advantages as they are eco-friendly, they have high performance abilities and they are costeffective and therefore can be used for modern applications. 2022 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
- Source
- Microbial Fuel Cell: Electricity Generation and Environmental Remediation, pp. 57-82.
- Date
- 2022-01-01
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
- Subject
- Biodegradable; Electricigens; Electrochemical reactions; MFC; Microbes
- Coverage
- Inchara M.N., School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; Mayegowda S.B., Christ University, Kanmanike, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; Manjula N.G., School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISBN: 979-888697238-2
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Book chapter
Collection
Citation
Inchara M.N.; Mayegowda S.B.; Manjula N.G., “Microbial fuel cells for electricity generation and environmental bioremediation,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 22, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/18534.