Microbial Fuel Cells, A Current Review

Microbial fuel cells: From fundamentals to applications. A review

In the past 10-15 years, the microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology has captured the attention of the scientific community for the possibility of transforming organic waste directly into electricity through microbially catalyzed anodic, and microbial/enzymatic/abiotic cathodic electrochemical reactions. In this review, several aspects of the technology are considered. Firstly, a brief history of ...

Recent developments in microbial fuel cells: a review

This review presents microbial fuel cells (MFCs) that convert biochemical metabolic energy into electrical energy. Microbes can be fed with waste products rich in organic matter (domestic wastewater, lignocellulosic biomass, brewery wastewater, starch processing wastewater, landfill leachates etc.) to generate electricity. MFCs can also be used for wastewater treatment, as biosensors and produc...

Practical energy harvesting for microbial fuel cells: a review.

The microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology offers sustainable solutions for distributed power systems and energy positive wastewater treatment, but the generation of practically usable power from MFCs remains a major challenge for system scale up and application. Commonly used external resistors will not harvest any usable energy, so energy-harvesting circuits are needed for real world applicatio...

A Review of Microbial Fuel Cells for Bioelectricity Generation

In this review a brief description of microbial fuel cells technology for generation of bioelectricity has been done. The review is mainly intended to focus on standard configurations, electrode materials, membranes, substrates, microorganisms and generation of bioelectricity. Being low in power generation, MFC is a slow pacing technology but has the enormous ability to act as long term sustain...

A review of microbial fuel cells coupled with constructed wetland