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Environmental Application of Microbial Fuel Cells

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 3191

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Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, 166 Nowoursynowska str., 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: microbial fuel cells; wastewater treatment; bioenergy; microbial communities evolving; miniaturized ion-selective electrodes; ion transport in biological systems
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Institute of Wood Sciences and Furniture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences—SGGW, Warszawa, Poland
Interests: bioplastics; renewable resources; environmentally friendly materials and technologies
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the Special Issue entitled “Environmental application of microbial fuel cells” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). Though microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology has been studied intensively in recent years, the obtained power production is still not satisfactory enough to apply this technology in practice. For this reason, extensive research on MFCs is still needed.

This Special Issue will be focused on the investigations of MFCs, which are aimed at environmental benefits such as sustainable energy production in the form of electric current or sustainable no-energy-consuming wastewater treatment. We encourage the submission of manuscripts dealing with enhancement of power production in MFCs, wastewater treatment, searching for new electrogenic species and optimizing conditions for maximized current production by microorganisms, microorganism identification and evolution in MFCs, new materials, and MFC design for enhanced power production. Original research as well as review articles are welcome.

Dr. Renata Toczyłowska-Mamińska
Prof. Dr. Mariusz Maminski
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Wood-Based Panel Industry Wastewater Meets Microbial Fuel Cell Technology
by Renata Toczyłowska-Mamińska
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(7), 2369; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph17072369 - 31 Mar 2020
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Although the wood-based panel industry is not considered to be a water-consuming sector, it generates ca. 600 M m3 of wastewater every year on a global scale. The wastewater is usually highly polluted and environmentally toxic even after dilution. Common wastewater treatment [...] Read more.
Although the wood-based panel industry is not considered to be a water-consuming sector, it generates ca. 600 M m3 of wastewater every year on a global scale. The wastewater is usually highly polluted and environmentally toxic even after dilution. Common wastewater treatment techniques require high-energy input or addition of various chemicals to the treated wastewater, which cause secondary pollution and production of toxic sludge. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have become an attractive technology, allowing for zero-energy treatment of various types of wastewater with simultaneous production of electric current. Recent investigations have shown that MFCs can also be utilized for sustainable treatment and energy production from the wastewater generated by the wood-based panel industry. This article contains a critical summary of the investigations in this field as well as a discussion of the research needed and perspectives for the future. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Application of Microbial Fuel Cells)
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