Microbial Fuel Cell Technology—A Critical Review on Scale-Up Issues

Scale-up of membrane-free single-chamber microbial fuel cells

Scale-up of membrane-free single-chamber microbial fuel cells Hong Liu a,∗, Shaoan Cheng b, Liping Huang b,d, Bruce E. Logan b,c a Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering, Oregon State University, 116 Gilmore Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA c Penn State Hydrogen Ener...

Microbial Fuel Cell Technology: a Review on Electricity Generation

In this review a brief description is given for the biofuel cells along with their classification. The review is mainly intended to concentrate on microbial fuel cells (MFCs) where micro-organisms are used to convert the fuel to electrical energy and also this review gives an overview of the advances made in the past two years in MFCs in terms of their research, development and performance. Som...

Production Scale Up of Nanofibers: A Review

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 ...

Improved Performance of Soil Microbial Fuel Cell by Adding Earthworms

Soil microbial fuel cells (SMFCs) are expected as an application to produce sustainable energy. Here, we focused on soil ecosystems, specifically the earthworms which are known to improve soil-fertility by degrading fallen leaves or plant litter. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of earthworm on power generation of the SMFC. The maximum power density and the internal res...