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    Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) use microorganisms to convert chemical energy into electricity. MFCs contain an anode and cathode separated by a membrane. At the anode, microbes oxidize organic compounds and transfer electrons, which flow through a circuit to the cathode, producing an electric current. While MFCs could provide renewable energy and treat wastewater, they currently have low power output. Researchers are working to improve materials, reactor designs, and microbes to increase efficiency and commercial viability of MFCs.

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    Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) use microorganisms to convert chemical energy into electricity. MFCs contain an anode and cathode separated by a membrane. At the anode, microbes oxidize organic compounds and transfer electrons, which flow through a circuit to the cathode, producing an electric current. While MFCs could provide renewable energy and treat wastewater, they currently have low power output. Researchers are working to improve materials, reactor designs, and microbes to increase efficiency and commercial viability of MFCs.

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    Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) use microorganisms to convert chemical energy into electricity. MFCs contain an anode and cathode separated by a membrane. At the anode, microbes oxidize organic compounds and transfer electrons, which flow through a circuit to the cathode, producing an electric current. While MFCs could provide renewable energy and treat wastewater, they currently have low power output. Researchers are working to improve materials, reactor designs, and microbes to increase efficiency and commercial viability of MFCs.

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    Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) use microorganisms to convert chemical energy into electricity. MFCs contain an anode and cathode separated by a membrane. At the anode, microbes oxidize organic compounds and transfer electrons, which flow through a circuit to the cathode, producing an electric current. While MFCs could provide renewable energy and treat wastewater, they currently have low power output. Researchers are working to improve materials, reactor designs, and microbes to increase efficiency and commercial viability of MFCs.

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    Microbio Fuel Cell

    Introduction:
    A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a device that converts chemical energy to electrical energy by
    the action of microorganisms. These electrochemical cells areconstructedusing either a
    bioanode and/or a biocathode. Most MFCs contain a membrane to separate the compartments of
    the anode (where oxidation takes place) and the cathode (where reduction takes place). The
    electrons produced during oxidation are transferred directly to an electrode or to a redoxmediator
    species.

    How do MFCs work?

    In MFC ,the electrons undergo a reduction


    reaction.This is a chemicalprocess in which electrons
    are absorbed. Astheelectrons movefromanode to cathode, they create an electric current. This can
    dowork, such as power a light bulb.
    Importance of the study?
    Microbial fuel cells can harvestelectricity from electrode-reducing organisms that
    donateelectrons to the anode. While the microorganism oxidizes organic compounds or
    substrates into carbon dioxide, the electrons are transferred to the anode.

    Using microbial fuel cells may help reduce environmental contaminants such as
    wastewater ,reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide by using it to rebuilds fuels, and may
    potentially provide a renewable energy source .

    Beside it , By using microbial fuel cell we can create electricity through the use of
    microorganisms.Organisms that transfer electrons to the anode are called electrode-

    reducing organisms.

    Review :

     Microbial fuel cell as new technology for bioelectricity


    generation
    Recently, great attentions have been paid to microbial fuel cells due to their mild
    operating conditions and using variety of biodegradable substrates as fuel.
    Microorganisms actively catabolize substrate, and bioelectricities are generated.
    MFCs could be utilized as power generator in small devices such as biosensor.
    Besides the advantages of this technology, it still faces practical barriers such as low
    power and current density.
    In the present article different parts of MFC
    such as anode, cathode and membrane have been
    reviewed and to overcome the practical
    challenges in this field some practical options
    have been suggested. Also, this research review
    demonstrates the improvement of MFCs with summarization of their advantageous
    and possible applications in future application.
    The development of low-cost materials and more efficient systems, with high higher
    power outputs and durability, are crucial towards the application of MFCs in
    industrial/large scale. This work is a helpful tool for discovering new operation and
    design regimes.

     Performance of stacked microbial fuel cells with barley–


    shochu waste

    The treatment of barley–shochu waste combined with electricity generation was


    examined using stacked microbial fuel cells . The maximum chemical oxygen
    demand (CODCr) removal efficiency and maximum power density were achieved at
    36.7 ± 1.1% and 4.3 ± 0.2 W m⁻³ (15.7 ± 0.9 mW m−2). The acetic acid concentration
    in effluent increased, whereas the citric acid, ethanol and sugar concentrations
    decreased during the operation. Microbial community analysis of the anode cell
    suspension and raw barley–shochu waste revealed
    that Clostridiaceae, Acetobacteraceae, and Enterobacteriaceae became
    predominant after the operation, implying that microorganisms belonging to these
    families might be involved in organic waste decomposition and electricity generation
    in the SMFCs.

     Future trends of MFC

    Though many types of research have proved MFC performance, still a few
    bottlenecks as listed below are there. Materials should have high durability, be less
    expensive, have more power output, reduced ohmic resistance, good electron
    acceptors, etc., Future research is mainly focused on a reasonable design of reactors
    with less internal resistance, using nanoparticles for enhancing electron transfer,
    using hereditarily designed micro-organisms and pretreated inoculum, diminishing
    the start-up.

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