ReviewHeliyon2022
Recent progress in microbial fuel cells using substrates from diverse sources.
Review in Heliyon, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Operational efficiencies and sustainable bioprocessing in electro-fermentation and microbial fuel cells.Bioprocess and biosystems engineering · 2026Pooled it
- Sugarcane Bagasse-Derived Biochar-Enabled Microbial Fuel Cell for Concurrent Bioelectrochemical Energy Recovery and Wastewater Remediation.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Biophotocatalytic and bioelectrocatalytic strategies for methane production and oxidation: emerging pathways and perspectives.Archives of microbiology · 2026Review
- Microbial fuel cell technology for clean energy production from palm oil mills effluent liquid waste.RSC advances · 2026Article
- Using dual chamber microbial fuel cells for coupled microplastic biodegradation and bioelectricity production: assessing the effect of substrate.Microbial cell factories · 2026Article
- Improvement of Power Generation in Microbial Fuel Cells Via Anode Modification with TiC@C-TiOApplied biochemistry and biotechnology · 2026Article
- Performance evaluation of microbial fuel cell using ceramic anode blended with rice husk ash and mild steel dust.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Performance of maize tassel activated carbon for COD removal from industrial wastewater under optimized conditions.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Electric Potential ofBioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Metabolic activity and pathway study of emerging contaminants biodegradation using a photo-bioelectrochemical system: a review.3 Biotech · 2025Review
- Harnessing the power of microbial fuel cells as pioneering green technology: advancing sustainable energy and wastewater treatment through innovative nanotechnology.Bioprocess and biosystems engineering · 2025Review
- Novel ionic liquid-infused PVA-based anion exchange membranes boosting bioelectricity yield from microbial fuel cells.Heliyon · 2025Article
- Characteristics and driving factors of power generation performance in microbial fuel cells: an analysis based on the CNKI database.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- WSFrontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Review on the impact of heavy metals from industrial wastewater effluent and removal technologies.Heliyon · 2024Review
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- Microbial Biofilms: Features of Formation and Potential for Use in Bioelectrochemical Devices.Biosensors · 2024Review
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- Flux sampling in genome-scale metabolic modeling of microbial communities.BMC bioinformatics · 2024Article
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Abstract
Increasing untreated environmental outputs from industry and the rising human population have increased the burden of wastewater and other waste streams on the environment. The most prevalent wastewater treatment methods include the activated sludge process, which requires aeration and is, therefore, energy and cost-intensive. The current trend towards a circular economy facilitates the recovery of waste materials as a resource. Along with the amount, the complexity of wastewater is increasing day by day. Therefore, wastewater treatment processes must be transformed into cost-effective and sustainable methods. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) use electroactive microbes to extract chemical energy from waste organic molecules to generate electricity via waste treatment. This review focuses use of MFCs as an energy converter using wastewater from various sources. The different substrate sources that are evaluated include industrial, agricultural, domestic, and pharmaceutical types. The article also highlights the effect of operational parameters such as organic load, pH, current, and concentration on the MFC output. The article also covers MFC functioning with respect to the substrate, and the associated performance parameters, such as power generation and wastewater treatment matrices, are given. The review also illustrates the success stories of various MFC configurations. We emphasize the significant measures required to fill in the gaps related to the effect of substrate type on different MFC configurations, identification of microbes for use as biocatalysts, and development of biocathodes for the further improvement of the system. Finally, we shortlisted the best performing substrates based on the maximum current and power, Coulombic efficiency, and chemical oxygen demand removal upon the treatment of substrates in MFCs. This information will guide industries that wish to use MFC technology to treat generated effluent from various processes.
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