Sediment microbial fuel cells

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Donovan, C., Dewan, A., Heo, D., and Beyenal, H. (2008) Batteryless, wireless sensor powered by a sediment microbial fuel cell. Environ. Sci. Technol., 42 (22), 8591-8596. 

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Babauta JT, Hsu L, Atci E, Kagan J, Chadwick B, Beyenal H. Multiple cathodic reaction mechanisms in seawater cathodic biofilms operating in sediment microbial fuel cells. ChemSusChem 2014 7 2898-2906. 

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Monitoring Power Generation from a Sediment Microbial Fuel Cell... 

Donovan C et al. Power management system for a 2.5 W remote sensor powered by a sediment microbial fuel cell. J Power Sources 2011 196(3) 1171-1177. 

Donovan C et al. Sediment microbial fuel cell powering a submersible ultrasonic receiver new approach to remote monitoring. J Power Sources 2013 233 79-85. 

Sediment microbial fuel cells are an excellent precedent of MFC applied to power devices in remote marine and estuarine locations [109]. MFCs hold great promise to produce biofuels from renewable biomass sources. The electricity produced by MFCs can be used for the electrolysis of water to produce hydrogen. Or, more efficiently, hydrogen could be produced directly from biomass sources using the MEC process (see Section 2.6.1). 

A.C. de Rosa, Diversity and Fimction of the Microbial Community on Anodes of Sediment Microbial Fuel Cells fueled by Root Exudates, PhD thesis, Marburg (Germany) University of Marburg, 2011. 

Recently, a novel microbial fuel cell harvesting energy from the marine sediment—seawater interface has been reported. Also, a novel photosynthetic biofuel cell that is a hybrid between a microbial and enzymatic biofuel cell has been reported for the very first time. More recently, reports of an unconventional biomass-fueled ceramic fuel cell can also be found in the literature. A new concept of Gastrobots —hybrid robots that utilize operational power derived from microbial fuel cells—has been introduced. Finally, the generation of electrical power by direct oxidation of glucose was demonstrated in mediatorless microbial fuel cells, which produced currents up to 3 fiA/cm at unknown cell voltage. ... 

Palmore also talked about examples of microbial systems. Derek Lovley s laboratory at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is looking at doing electrochemistry in ocean or bay sediments. New organisms are being discovered through their research and the use of a microbial fuel cell in which carbohydrates are taken to carbon dioxide using Rhodoferax ferrireducens have been demonstrated. 

Wotawa-Bergen AQ, Chadwick DB, Richter KE, Tender LM, Reimers CE, Gong Y. Operational testing of sediment-based microbial fuel cells in the San Diego Bay. IEEE Oceans 2010 Conference Proceedings 2010 p. 1-6. DOI 10.1109/OCEANS.2010. 5664612. 

Figure 11.1 Schematic diagram of a benthic microbial fuel cell (BMFC). The anode was buried under the sediment, and the cathode floated underwater above the water-sediment interface. In this figure, electrons pass through aresistor. Instead of aresistor, a power management system can be used to increase potential and to operate a sensor.

F. Rezaei, T.L. Richard, R.A. Brennan and B.E. Logan, Substrate-enhanced microbial fuel cells for improved remote power generation from sediment-based systems, Environ. Sci. Technol. 41,2007,4053-4058. 

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