Air-cathode fabrication is currently a key factor that hinders the scaling up of microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology. A new type of cathode material that contains porous polyethylene (PE) sheet and a blended activated carbon (AC) and highly conductive carbon back (CB) layer was developed for the first time. The...
While most biological materials are insulating in nature, efficient extracellular electron transfer is a critical property of biofilms associated with microbial electrochemical systems and several microorganisms are capable of establishing conductive aggregates and biofilms. Though construction of these conductive microbial networks is an intriguing and important phenomenon in both natural...
BACKGROUND: The release of antibiotics into aquatic environments has made the treatment of wastewater
containing antibiotics a world-wide public health problem. The ability of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) to harvest
electricity from organic waste and renewable biomass is attracting increased interest in wastewater treatment.
In this paper we investigated the...
Biodiesel has gained a significant amount of attention over the past decade as an environmentally friendly fuel that is capable of being utilized by a conventional diesel engine. However, the biodiesel production process generates glycerol-containing waste streams which have become a disposal issue for biodiesel plants and generated a surplus...
The performance of an over 10 times larger microbial fuel cell (MFC) with double cloth electrode assembly (CEA) during 63 days of continuous operation demonstrates that the excellent performance of CEA-MFC can be further improved during scale-up. With a new separator material and U-shaped current collectors, the larger MFC produced...