Enhanced sediment MFCs

Power generation by SMFCs is limited by the concentration of organic matter in sediments, and by the rate at which this material can be degraded by bacteria. 

Maximum power densities using chitin in the SEM were 76 25 mW/m and 84  

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Fig. 10.4 (A) Substrate enhanced MFC (SEM) tested in the laboratory (aeration of the water above the sediment is not shown) and (B) example of the carbon cloth anode before being sewn to contain one of three different substrates shown. [Reprinted from Rezaei et al. (2007) with permission of the American Chemical Society.]...

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