Development and Application of Supported Ionic Liquid Membranes in Microbial Fuel Cell Technology: A Concise Overview

Gas Separation by Supported Ionic Liquid Membranes

The use of ionic liquids (ILs) for gas separation processes recently has attracted much attention due to high solubilities of different gaseous species in ionic liquids [1]. The preparation of supported ionic liquid membranes (SILMs) is also reported for selective separation of different organic or gaseous compounds. Research activities have amongst others focused on CO2 separation from gas str...

Failure Mechanisms of Hollow Fiber Supported Ionic Liquid Membranes

Hollow fiber supported ionic liquid membranes (SILMs) were tested using the bubble point method to investigate potential failure modes, including the maximum transmembrane pressure before loss of the ionic liquid from the support. Porous hollow fiber supports were fabricated with different pore morphologies using Matrimid(®) and Torlon(®) as the polymeric material and 1-hexyl-3-methylimidalzoli...

Overview on Electricigens for Microbial Fuel Cell

Microbial fuel cell is a bio-electrochemical system that drives a current by using bacteria and mimicking bacterial interactions found in nature. The electricigens and its activity have important influence on the power generation capacity and organic matter degradation ability of MFC system. The common types of electricigens and their application situation in microbial fuel cell are summarized ...

Synthesis of Sulfonated Polystyrene/acrylate–ionic Liquid (Si-SPS/A–IL) Hybrid Membranes for Methanol Fuel Cells

In this paper, the silicon-containing sulfonated polystyrene/acrylate–ionic liquid (Si-SPS/A–IL)hybrid membranes was prepared to obtain the proton exchange membrane (PEM) materials withhigh methanol barrier and good selectivity. The Si-SPS/A–IL hybrid membranes characterized asthe function of IL to evaluate their potential as PEMs in direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs).Fourdifferent Hybrid mater...

Microbial Fuel Cell: A New Alternative Technology to Generate Electricity from Organic Matter