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UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
FACULTY OF PHYSICS Guest
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Conference: Bucharest University Faculty of Physics 2011 Meeting
Section: Polymer Physics
Title:
Microbial fuel cells. Applications in wastewater treatment
Authors:
Ana Cucu, Adriana Andronie, St. Iordache, Serban Stamatin, Elena Radu and Ioan Stamatin
Affiliation:
University of Bucharest, Physics Department, 3 Nano-SAE Research Centre, Bucharest, Romania
E-mail
office@3nanosae.org
Keywords:
Microbial fuel cells, bioelectricity, wastewater treatment
Abstract:
The microbial fuel cell systems are the newest approach in bioelectricity generation using a microbial biomass. They are similary to fuel cell systems converting the chemical energy present in molecules like glucose, methanol and others into electricity. These systems have the ability of converting organic waste including low-strength wastewaters and different biomass into electricity. Microbial production of electricity may become an important form of bioenergy in future because MFCs offer the possibility of extracting electric current from a wide range of soluble or dissolved complex organic wastes and renewable biomass. The use of mixt bacterial consortium, in microbial fuel cells, present some advantages beside the use of pure strains, like a better endurance for the process interferences, the input rate is bigger and they have a smaller substrate specificity and produce more energy. The major substrates that have been tried include various kinds of substrates and real wastewaters.This article presents the monitorisation of various substrates explored in MFCs, their resulting performance and their limitations as well as future potential substrates
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