Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 118, Issue -, Pages 615-618Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2012.05.054
Keywords
Microbial fuel cells; Shewanella oneidensis; Specific growth rate
Funding
- National Science and Technology Council of Mexico (CONACYT) [206298]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of the UK (EPSRC) CAF [EP/I004653/1]
- EPSRC [EP/I004653/1, EP/H019480/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/H019480/1, EP/I004653/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The aim of this work is to study the relationship between growth rate and electricity production in perfusion-electrode microbial fuel cells (MFCs), across a wide range of flow rates by co-measurement of electrical output and changes in population numbers by viable counts and optical density. The experiments hereby presented demonstrate, for the first time to the authors' knowledge, that the anodic biofilm specific growth rate can be determined and controlled in common with other loose matrix perfusion systems. Feeding with nutrient-limiting conditions at a critical flow rate (50.8 mL h(-1)) resulted in the first experimental determination of maximum specific growth rate mu(max) (19.8 day(-1)) for Shewanella spp. MFC biofilms, which is considerably higher than those predicted or assumed via mathematical modelling. It is also shown that, under carbon-energy limiting conditions there is a strong direct relationship between growth rate and electrical power output, with fin coinciding with maximum electrical power production. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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