Recent advances on biomass-fueled microbial fuel cell

Moradian, Jamile Mohammadi; Fang, Zhen; Yong, Yang-Chun

doi:10.1186/s40643-021-00365-7

Bioresources and Bioprocessing

Table 1 Performance of MFCs fueled with various biomass substrates

From: Recent advances on biomass-fueled microbial fuel cell

Biomass	Microorganism	Pretreatment method	Anode	Electrode modification	MFC performance	Refs.
Chitin	Shewanella oneidensis-MR-1	Physical pretreatment by the mechanical process of size reduction	Carbon felt	None	4.24 µA/cm²	Li et al. (2017a, b)
Cattle manure	Escherichia coli strain K-12 (ATCC25257), and manure leachate	Untreated	Brush carbon	None	93 mW/m²	Zheng and Nirmalakhandan (2010)
Raw rapeseed straw	Post-fermentation sludge	Hydrothermal pretreatment, microwave treatment, and enzymatic hydrolysis	Graphite felt	The cathode (graphite felt) additionally coated with a Pt/C catalyst	54 mW/m²	Jablonska et al. (2016)
Orange peel waste	Anaerobic wastewater sludge	Physical pretreatment by the mechanical process of size reduction	Graphite felt	None	358.8 ± 15.6 mW/m²	Miran et al. (2016a)
Enteromorpha prolifera bloom	Pre-domesticated bacteria	Acid hydrolysis	Carbon cloth	None	1027 mW/m²	Wang et al. (2013)
Rice straw	Mixed-culture of cellulose-degrading bacteria (CDBs)	Physical pretreatment by the mechanical process of size reduction	Carbon paper	None	190 ± 13.6 mW/m² 146 mW/m²	Gurung and Oh (2015), Hassan et al. (2014)
Kitchen waste anaerobically digested effluent (KWADE)	Five species of microalgae including Golenkinia sp. SDEC-16, Scenedesmus SDEC-8, Scenedesmus SDEC-13, S. capricormutum, and Chlorella vulgaris	Physical pretreatment by the mechanical process of filtration to remove insoluble solids	Graphite	None	6255 mW/m³ inoculated with Golenkinia SDEC-16	Hou et al. (2016)
Food wastes	Anaerobic sludge	Physical pretreatment by the mechanical process of size reduction	Carbon cloth	Carbon cloth-based cathode containing 10% platinum	5.6 W/m³	Li et al. (2016)
Corn Stover waste	Domestic wastewater	Acid hydrolysate, and steam-explosion	Carbon paper	None	93,971 mW/m² (acid hydrolysates)	Zuo et al. (2006)
Solid potato waste	Activated sludge	Physical pretreatment by the mechanical process of size reduction	Carbon felt	None	6.8 mW/m²	Du and Li (2017)
Corn straw	Shewanella onidensis MR-1	Physical pretreatment by a mechanical process of size reduction, and acid hydrolysate	Carbon cloth	Polyaniline (PANI) nanowire	660 mW/m²	Wang et al. (2017)
Corncob pellets	Ruminal contents, Pasteurized soil, and Geobacter metallireducens	Untreated	Graphite brush	None	230 mW/m³	Gregoire and Becker (2012)
Macroalgal biomass (Laminaria digitate)	Domestic wastewater	Physical pretreatment by a mechanical process of size reduction (< 2 mm), and grounded into powder	Carbon brush	None	0.5 V	Zhao et al. (2018a , b)
Lipid extracted algal	Pretreated cow manure	Methanol-chloroform (2:1) by modified Bligh and Dyer extraction method	Graphite felt	None	2.7 W/m³	Khandelwal et al. (2018)
Cornstalk	Municipal wastewater	Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL)	Carbon felt	CNTs	680 mW/m³	Liu et al. (2015)
Canna indica (canna)	Rumen microorganisms	Untreated	Carbon paper	None	0.405 W/m³	Zang et al. (2010)
Sugarcane bagasse, Corn cob	Two acetic acid bacteria, namely A. aceti (NCIM no. 2116) and G. roseus (NCIM no. 2049)	Biological pretreatment by O. annae, a freshwater cyanobacterium	Carbon felt	None	8.78 W/m³ 6.73 W/m³	Krishnaraj et al. (2015)

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