Choudhury Payel, Prasad Uday Uma Shankar, Bandyopadhyay Tarun Kanti, Ray Rup Narayan, Bhunia Biswanath
a Department of Electrical Engineering , National Institute of Technology , Agartala , India.
b Department of Chemical Engineering , National Institute of Technology , Agartala , India.
Bioengineered. 2017 Sep 3;8(5):471-487. doi: 10.1080/21655979.2016.1267883. Epub 2017 Apr 28.
There is an urgent need to find an environment friendly and sustainable technology for alternative energy due to rapid depletion of fossil fuel and industrialization. Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) have operational and functional advantages over the current technologies for energy generation from organic matter as it directly converts electricity from substrate at ambient temperature. However, MFCs are still unsuitable for high energy demands due to practical limitations. The overall performance of an MFC depends on microorganism, appropriate electrode materials, suitable MFC designs, and optimizing process parameters which would accelerate commercialization of this technology in near future. In this review, we put forth the recent developments on microorganism and electrode material that are critical for the generation of bioelectricity generation. This would give a comprehensive insight into the characteristics, options, modifications, and evaluations of these parameters and their effects on process development of MFCs.
由于化石燃料的迅速枯竭和工业化进程，迫切需要找到一种环境友好且可持续的替代能源技术。微生物燃料电池（MFCs）与目前从有机物发电的技术相比，具有操作和功能上的优势，因为它能在环境温度下直接将底物转化为电能。然而，由于实际限制，MFCs仍不适用于高能量需求。MFC的整体性能取决于微生物、合适的电极材料、适宜的MFC设计以及优化工艺参数，这些将在不久的将来加速该技术的商业化。在这篇综述中，我们阐述了对生物电产生至关重要的微生物和电极材料的最新进展。这将全面深入了解这些参数的特性、选择、改性和评估，以及它们对MFCs工艺发展的影响。
