Journal
BIOENGINEERED
Volume 8, Issue 5, Pages 471-487Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/21655979.2016.1267883
Keywords
electrode; electricity; microbial fuel cells (MFCs); microorganism; process development
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- National Institute of Technology, Agartala, India
- National Institute of Technology, Agartala, Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Government of India
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There is an urgent need to find an environment friendly and sustainable technology for alternative energy due to rapid depletion of fossil fuel and industrialization. Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) have operational and functional advantages over the current technologies for energy generation from organic matter as it directly converts electricity from substrate at ambient temperature. However, MFCs are still unsuitable for high energy demands due to practical limitations. The overall performance of an MFC depends on microorganism, appropriate electrode materials, suitable MFC designs, and optimizing process parameters which would accelerate commercialization of this technology in near future. In this review, we put forth the recent developments on microorganism and electrode material that are critical for the generation of bioelectricity generation. This would give a comprehensive insight into the characteristics, options, modifications, and evaluations of these parameters and their effects on process development of MFCs.
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