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AbubakarMuh'd Sani, Nishit Savla, Soumya Pandit, Abhilasha Singh Mathuriya, Piyush K. Gupta, Namita Khanna, Rishi Pramod Babu, Sachin Kumar
Summary: The emergence of renewable energy technologies provides a significant advantage in converting organic wastes to bioenergy. Lignocellulosic biomass is considered to be a rich source of energy that can be utilized by microbial consortia to generate electricity in a microbial fuel cell.
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(2021)
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Mostafa E. Elshobary, Hossain M. Zabed, Junhua Yun, Guoyan Zhang, Xianghui Qi
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
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Agricultural Engineering
Lucca Bonjy Kikuti Mancilio, Guilherme Augusto Ribeiro, Erica Janaina Rodrigues de Almeida, Guilherme Marcelino Viana de Siqueira, Rafael Silva Rocha, Maria-Eugenia Guazzaroni, Adalgisa Rodrigues De Andrade, Valeria Reginatto
Summary: In this study, a synthetic nonfermentable fraction of sugarcane biomass hydrolysates was used in MFC operation, with acetate spiked with p-coumaric acid as substrates. The addition of 0.1 mM p-coumaric acid resulted in a decrease in both the potential and power density of the MFC. p-Coumaric acid was efficiently metabolized (79%) by a robust bacterial community mainly composed of Pseudomonas spp. and Pseudochrobactrum spp.
INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS
(2021)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Walter Rojas-Villacorta, Segundo Rojas-Flores, Santiago M. Benites, Renny Nazario-Naveda, Cecilia V. Romero, Moises Gallozzo-Cardenas, Daniel Delfin-Narciso, Felix Diaz, Emzon Murga-Torres
Summary: Agricultural waste has negative impacts on the environment and creates economic difficulties for agro-industrial companies and farmers. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the use of lettuce waste as a sustainable substrate for generating bioelectricity in single-chamber microbial fuel cells. The results showed that the peak voltage and current were 0.959 ± 0.026 V and 5.697 ± 0.065 mA on the fourteenth day, with an optimal pH of 7.867 ± 0.147 and electrical conductivity of 118.964 ± 8.888 mS/cm. The maximum power density was calculated to be 378.145 ± 5.417 mW/cm², and the internal resistance was 87.594 ± 6.226 Ω according to Ohm's Law. Furthermore, the presence of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bacterium (99.59%) in the anodic biofilm was identified on a molecular scale. Finally, three microbial fuel cells connected in series were able to power an LED bulb with a voltage of 2.18 V.
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Agricultural Engineering
Shrirang Maddalwar, Kush Kumar Nayak, Manish Kumar, Lal Singh
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BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
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Engineering, Environmental
Monika Sharma, El-Sayed Salama, Nandini Thakur, Hisham Alghamdi, Byong-Hun Jeon, Xiangkai Li
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(2023)
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Amitap Khandelwal, Meenu Chhabra, Piet N. L. Lens
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Theofilos Kamperidis, Asimina Tremouli, Antonis Peppas, Gerasimos Lyberatos
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Debajyoti Bose, Mahula Santra, Rama Venkata Siva Prasanna Sanka, Balaji Krishnakumar
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENERGY RESEARCH
(2021)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Dexter Hoi Long Leung, Yin Sze Lim, Kasimayan Uma, Guan-Ting Pan, Ja-Hon Lin, Siewhui Chong, Thomas Chung-Kuang Yang
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(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Lu Wang, Dayong Xu, Qingyun Zhang, Tingting Liu, Zhengkai Tao
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(2022)
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Plant Sciences
Rukhsar Shaikh, Afshan Rizvi, Marzuqa Quraishi, Soumya Pandit, Abhilasha Singh Mathuriya, Piyush Kumar Gupta, Joginder Singh, Ram Prasad
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SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY
(2021)
Review
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Ankesh Ahirwar, Swati Das, Sovik Das, Yung-Hun Yang, Shashi Kant Bhatia, Vandana Vinayak, Makarand Madhao Ghangrekar
Summary: Photosynthetic microbial fuel cells (PMFCs) are environmentally friendly fuel cells that use light to produce renewable bioelectricity. Algae assisted PMFCs have advantages such as rapid growth, smaller space requirement, production of free oxygen, and value-added products. This review highlights the application and advantages of algae assisted PMFCs for bioelectricity generation and recovery of value-added products. The low cost and potential for resource recovery using PMFCs are also emphasized.
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(2023)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Fabrice Ndayisenga, Zhisheng Yu, Telesphore Kabera, Bobo Wang, Hongxia Liang, Irfan Ali Phulpoto, Telesphore Habiyakare, Yvan Kalisa Ndayambaje, Xinyu Yan
Summary: This study investigates the use of sodium acetate as a co-substrate in microbial fuel cells to enhance the conversion of toxic blue-green algae biomass into bioelectricity. The addition of sodium acetate significantly increases the voltage output, extends the electric batch cycle, and enhances the maximum power density. It also reduces the charge transfer resistance and has minimal effect on cell morphology. This research is important for sustainable clean energy production and waste control in aquatic environments.
CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
(2023)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xiao Huang, Chongsen Duan, Weiyan Duan, Feiyun Sun, Hongwu Cui, Shuai Zhang, Xi Chen
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