Electricity generation from wastewaters with starch as carbon source using a mediatorless microbial fuel cell

HERRERO-HERNANDEZ, E, SMITH, Thomas and AKID, Robert (2013). Electricity generation from wastewaters with starch as carbon source using a mediatorless microbial fuel cell. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 39 (1), 194-198.

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Abstract

Microbial fuel cells represent a new method for producing electricity from the oxidation of organic matter. A mediatorless microbial fuel cell was developed using Escherichia coli as the active bacterial component with synthetic wastewater of potato extract as the energy source. The two-chamber fuel cell, with a relation of volume between anode and cathode chamber of 8:1, was operated in batch mode. The response was similar to that obtained when glucose was used as the carbon source. The performance characteristics of the fuel cell were evaluated with two different anode and cathode shapes, platinised titanium strip or mesh; the highest maximum power density (502 mW m−2) was achieved in the microbial fuel cell with mesh electrodes. In addition to electricity generation, the MFC exhibited efficient treatment of wastewater so that significant reduction of initial oxygen demand of wastewater by 61% was observed. These results demonstrate that potato starch can be used for power generation in a mediatorless microbial fuel cell with high removal efficiency of chemical oxygen demand.

Item Type:	Article
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Biomedical Research Centre
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2012.07.037
Page Range:	194-198
Depositing User:	Louise Vickers
Date Deposited:	31 Oct 2014 10:37
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2021 10:32
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/8626

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