A new bioelectrochemical approach based on metabolic activities inoculated bacteria, and the microbial fuel cell (MFC) acts as biocatalysts for natural conversion to energy of organic substrates. Among several factors, substrate is most critical challenge in MFC, which requires long-term stability. The utilization unstable directly affects MFC performance, such low generation. Similarly, intera...

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have emerged as a viable method for bioremediation of toxic metals while also producing energy. In this paper, we examine the issue organic substrate source metabolism microbe growth in MFC, well its significance metal ion degradation tandem with energy production. This study focused on use commercial sugar an single-chamber MFC. The MFC was operated 27 days, highest...

Microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology has attracted a great amount of attention due to its potential for organic and inorganic waste treatment concomitant with power generation. It is thus seen as clean energy alternative. Modifications innovations have been conducted on standalone hybrid/coupled MFC systems improve the output meet end goal, namely, commercialization implementation into existing...

BACKGROUND Purified terephthalic acid (PTA) wastewater from a petrochemical complex was utilized as a fuel in the anode of a microbial fuel cell (MFC). Effects of two important parameters including different dilutions of the PTA wastewater and pH on the performance of the MFC were investigated. METHODS The MFC used was a membrane-less single chamber consisted of a stainless steel mesh as anod...

A microbial fuel cell (MFC) was operated with a pure culture of Cupriavidus basilensis bacterial cells growing in the anode compartment in a defined medium containing acetate or phenol. Operating this mediator-less MFC under a constant external resistor of 1 kΩ with acetate or phenol led to current generation of 902 and 310 mA m(-2) respectively. In the MFC which was operated using acetate or p...

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) was used to study the behavior of a microbial fuel cell (MFC) during initial biofilm growth in an acetate-fed, two-chamber MFC system with ferricyanide in the cathode. EIS experiments were performed both on the full cell (between cathode and anode) as well as on individual electrodes. The Nyquist plots of the EIS data were fitted with an equivalent e...

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) was used to study the behavior of a microbial fuel cell (MFC) during initial biofilm growth in an acetate-fed, two-chamber MFC system with ferricyanide in the cathode. EIS experiments were performed both on the full cell (between cathode and anode) as well as on individual electrodes. The Nyquist plots of the EIS data were fitted with an equivalent e...

In this paper, we present an overview of recent progress in the development of the NASA Macro-Fiber Composite (MFC) piezocomposite actuator device. This will include a brief history of the development of the MFC, a description of the standard manufacturing process used to fabricate MFC actuators, and a summary of ongoing MFC electromechanical characterization testing. In addition, we describe t...

The Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) is a bioreactor with which the chemical energy in bonds of organic compounds are converted to electricity under anaerobic conditions through catalytic reactions micro-organisms. It has been familiar for long time that can be generated directly using bacteria break matter. A microbial fuel cell also serve different wastewater treatment destroy development MFC techno...

Microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology is promising for wastewater treatment because it enables recovery of clean electric energy as wastewater organic matter is oxidized. The preferred oxidant is the oxygen in air because it is cheap and readily available, but the efficiency of oxygen reduction is constrained by operating conditions (low oxygen solubility, temperature and mostly neutral pH). Con...