Use of Wastewater and Electrogenic Bacteria to Generate Eco-Friendly Electricity through Microbial Fuel Cells

Electricity generation from swine wastewater using microbial fuel cells.

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) represent a new method for treating animal wastewaters and simultaneously producing electricity. Preliminary tests using a two-chambered MFC with an aqueous cathode indicated that electricity could be generated from swine wastewater containing 8320 +/- 190 mg/L of soluble chemical oxygen demand (SCOD) (maximum power density of 45 mW/m2). More extensive tests with a s...

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

Comparative Metagenomic Analysis of Electrogenic Microbial Communities in Differentially Inoculated Swine Wastewater-Fed Microbial Fuel Cells

Bioelectrochemical systems such as microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are promising new technologies for efficient removal of organic compounds from industrial wastewaters, including that generated from swine farming. We inoculated two pairs of laboratory-scale MFCs with sludge granules from a beer wastewater-treating anaerobic digester (IGBS) or from sludge taken from the bottom of a tank receiving s...

Eco-Friendly Wastewater Treatment Solution Using Self-Powered Microbial Fuel Cell

Efficient monitoring and control of Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) has turned into an important public issue as the cost of electricity continues to grow and the quality requirement of processed water tightens. A Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) is a bio-electrochemical system that drives a current by mimicking bacterial interactions found in nature. Self-powered Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) ar...

Treatment of Brewery Wastewater and Production of Electricity through Microbial Fuel Cell Technology

Renewable energy is an increasing need in our society. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) represent a new method for treating wastewater and simultaneously producing electricity. In the present study, we demonstrated the feasibility of bioelectricity generation from brewery wastewater treatment using a mediator less MFC at different pH. We also demonstrated that addition of readily utilizable substrat...