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ArticleEnergy (Oxford, England)2018

Improved power and long term performance of microbial fuel cell with Fe-N-C catalyst in air-breathing cathode.

Iwona Gajda, John Greenman, Carlo Santoro, Alexey Serov, Chris Melhuish, Plamen Atanassov, Ioannis A Ieropoulos

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Article in Energy (Oxford, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Multi-functional microbial fuel cells for power, treatment and electro-osmotic purification of urine.Journal of chemical technology and biotechnology (Oxford, Oxfordshire : 1986) · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Iwona GajdaBristol BioEnergy Centre, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England, BS16 1QY, UK.
John GreenmanBristol BioEnergy Centre, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England, BS16 1QY, UK.
Carlo SantoroCenter for Micro-Engineered Materials (CMEM), Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Alexey SerovCenter for Micro-Engineered Materials (CMEM), Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Chris MelhuishBristol BioEnergy Centre, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England, BS16 1QY, UK.
Plamen AtanassovCenter for Micro-Engineered Materials (CMEM), Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Ioannis A IeropoulosBristol BioEnergy Centre, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England, BS16 1QY, UK.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Power output limitation is one of the main challenges that needs to be addressed for full-scale applications of the Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) technology. Previous studies have examined electrochemical performance of different cathode electrodes including the development of novel iron based electrocatalysts, however the long-term investigation into continuously operating systems is rare. This work aims to study the application of platinum group metals-free (PGM-free) catalysts integrated into an air-breathing cathode of the microbial fuel cell operating on activated sewage sludge and supplemented with acetate as the carbon energy source. The maximum power density up to 1.3 Wm

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Cathode catalystCatholyte extractionCaustic catholyteElectro-osmosisMicrobial fuel cell

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PMID29456285
PMCPMC5807896

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