Microbial fuel cell: a green approach for the utilization of waste for the generation of bioelectricity

Chaturvedi, Venkatesh; Verma, Pradeep

doi:10.1186/s40643-016-0116-6

Bioresources and Bioprocessing

Table 1 A list of substrates used in MFCs

From: Microbial fuel cell: a green approach for the utilization of waste for the generation of bioelectricity

S. no.	Substrates	Concentration	Microorganism	Current density (mA/cm²)	Reference
1	Cellulose	4 g/L	Pure culture of Enterobacter cloacae	0.02	Rezaei et al. (2009)
2	1,2-Dichloroethane	99 mg/L	Microbial consortia from acetate enriched MFC	0.008	Pham et al. (2009)
3	Furfural	6.8 mM	Pre-acclimated bacteria from anode of a ferricyanide-cathode MFC	0.17	Luo et al. (2010)
4	Lactate	18 mM	Pure culture of S. oneidensis MR-1	0.005	Manohar and Mansfeld (2009)
5	Landfill leachate	6000 mg/L	Leachate and sludge	0.0004	Greenman et al. (2009)
6	Phenol	400 mg/L	Mixed aerobic activated sludge and anaerobic sludge (1:1, v/v)	0.1	Luo et al. (2009)
7	Sucrose	2674 mg/L	Anaerobic sludge from septic tank	0.19	Behera and Ghangrekar (2009)
8.	Beer brewery wastewater	600 mg/L	Anaerobic mixed consortia	0.18	Wen et al. (2009)
9	Chocolate industry wastewater	1459 mg/L COD	Activated sludge	0.302	Patil et al. (2009)
10	Domestic wastewater	600 mg/L	Anaerobic sludge	0.06	Wang et al. (2009)
11	Protein-rich wastewater	1.75 g/L COD	Mesophilic anaerobic sludge	0.008	Liu et al. (2009a, b)
12	Starch processing wastewater	4852 mg/L COD	Starch processing wastewater	0.09	Lu et al. (2009)
13	Synthetic wastewater	16 g COD/day	Granular sludge from an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor	0.017	Aldrovandi et al. (2009)
14	Synthetic wastewater	510 mg/L	Anaerobic culture from a preexisting MFC	0.008	Jadhav and Ghangrekar (2009)
15	Food-industry wastes	8169 CO mg/L	Aerobic sludge	0.025	Quezada et al. (2010)
16	Vegetable based waste	0.98 kg COD/m3-day	Anaerobic acidogenic mixed consortia	0.0329	Mohanakrishna et al. (2010)
17	Swine wastewater	60 CO gm/L	paddy field soil	0.700	Ichihashi and Hirooka (2012)
18	Slaughterhouse wastewater	900 COD mg/L	Granular anaerobic sludge inoculum	0.130	Katuri et al. (2012)
19	Food waste	16 g/L	Anaerobic culture	0.045	Choi et al. (2011)
20	Rice straw hydrolysate	400 mg/mL	Desulfobulbus and Clostridium	137.6	Wang (2014)

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