Effects of furan derivatives and phenolic compounds on electricity generation in microbial fuel cells

Çatal, Tunç; Fan, Yining; Li, Kaichang; Bermek, Hakan; Liu, Hong

doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2008.02.052

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“…55 -57 Different from the polyalcohols, 12 tested furan derivatives and phenolic compounds except 5-hydroxymethyl furfural cannot be degraded in the same system without the presence of glucose. 58 However, changing the inoculum from a previous anode solution to activated sludge in municipal wastewater, can successfully achieve furfural degradation without the presence of glucose. 58,59 Alternatively, using a suitable and carefully pre-acclimated inoculum from a MEC with the development of a cellulose degrading and current-producing microbial consortia can achieve more efficient cellulose removal and power generation than the previous one inoculated directly from paper recycling wastewater.…”

Section: Bioanodic Mfcsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…58 However, changing the inoculum from a previous anode solution to activated sludge in municipal wastewater, can successfully achieve furfural degradation without the presence of glucose. 58,59 Alternatively, using a suitable and carefully pre-acclimated inoculum from a MEC with the development of a cellulose degrading and current-producing microbial consortia can achieve more efficient cellulose removal and power generation than the previous one inoculated directly from paper recycling wastewater. 60,61 In another report, electrochemically active bacteria originated from a 1,2-dichloroethane contaminated site can achieve 1,2-dichloroethane removal of 85% with electricity generation of 0.10 mA, and 95% 1,2-dichloroethane removal and 0.17 mA current production with bacteria previously enriched with acetate.…”

Section: Bioanodic Mfcsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…44,63,68 -69 Different from the above mentioned compounds, pyridine and veratryl alcohol using only pyridine and veratryl alcohol, respectively, as the fuel exhibited higher removal efficiencies than those using pyridine-glucose or veratryl alcohol-glucose mixtures (Table 2), mainly attributed to the wileyonlinelibrary.com/jctb change of microbial consortia during a comparatively long acclimation period of 90 days. 58,69,71 The input of recalcitrant wastes to a previously evolved mature microbial consortia using cosubstrate for acclimation startup has changed the composition of microbial consortia, which may change the metabolism pathways and electron distribution of the co-substrates and recalcitrant wastes. 44,64,69 Much work is needed to qualitatively and quantitatively interpret the complex relationships among the multiple substrates and electron-accepting anode, based on a calculation of equivalent electron sink balance in order to lower the internal energy losses and improve process efficiency at the same time.…”

Section: Bioanodic Mfcsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Bioelectrochemical systems for efficient recalcitrant wastes treatment

Huang

Cheng

Chen

2010

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Recalcitrant wastes including dyes, pesticides, explosives, heavy metals, polyalcohols, furan derivatives and phenolic substances, are of special concern owing to their recalcitrance and persistence in the environment. Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) including microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and microbial electrolysis cells (MECs), integrate three important wastewater treatment options, namely, biological treatment, electrolytic dissociation and electrochemical oxidation/reduction, and are regarded as a new sustainable and effective strategy for treatment of these wastes. The simultaneous and cooperative roles of these multiple units running in parallel in BESs contribute to the efficiency of recalcitrant waste treatment, while substrate metabolism is considered to be a key step triggering different unit operations. An up-to-date review is provided on recent research and development in BESs-based recalcitrant wastes treatment. MFCs and MECs, as two types of BESs, are summarized in terms of treatment efficiency, recalcitrant substance metabolic pathway and microorganism diversity after a brief introduction to the electrochemical process for recalcitrant waste treatment. The scientific and technical challenges that have yet to be faced in the future are also discussed.

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Section: Bioanodic Mfcsmentioning

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“…Such potential negative effects have been studied with phenolic compounds and glucose as the substrate in a MFC [47]. The phenolic compounds examined did not contribute to the electricity generation.…”

Section: Microbial Conversion Of Phenolicsmentioning

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Integration of Microbial Electrolysis Cells (MECs) in the Biorefinery for Production of Ethanol, H2 and Phenolics

Thygesen

Thomsen

Possemiers

et al. 2010

Waste Biomass Valor

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In a biorefinery, biomass is converted into a variety of chemicals, materials and energy. A typical example is the lignocellulosic ethanol biorefinery process, in which substrates such as wheat straw are used as a feedstock for production of ethanol. In this work, an integrated biorefinery procedure is proposed in which the ethanol biorefinery is coupled with a microbial electrolysis cell (MEC), with the aim to further process and valorize the waste stream of bioethanol production. A MEC is an electrochemical system capable of oxidizing reducing equivalents, which results in hydrogen production. The mass and energy balances as well as the economical evaluations, show that this strategy may be useful for additional generation of hydrogen and lignin, thereby increasing the final yield of this biorefinery. From one ton of straw, the yield of ethanol upon yeast fermentation is estimated at 177-190 kg, with a hydrogen yield corresponding to 19-23 kg H 2 . The remaining solid residue of 147-160 kg comprises primarily lignin. The estimated value of these products approximates the double of that of straw. Integrating a MEC in the biorefinery concept may also be useful for other applications such as polyphenol purification and targeted modification of fruit based phenolics. Examples of such high-value plant polyphenols include equol and resveratrol, which can be produced from soy and grape, respectively.

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“…Although anode might replace oxygen as an alternatively terminal electron acceptor, similar as nitrate and sulfate, that enabled the microbial anaerobic utilization of recalcitrant organics (Philipp and Schink, 2012;Zhang et al, 2009), it cannot fulfill the function of oxygen that activates the oxygenases which are essential for the ring structure cleavage (Field, 2002). Hence, the energy recovery from the recalcitrant organics does not always work in MFCs (Catal et al, 2008).…”

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Stimulation of oxygen to bioanode for energy recovery from recalcitrant organic matter aniline in microbial fuel cells (MFCs)

Cheng

Liang

et al. 2015

Water Research

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Oxygen Energy recovery a b s t r a c tThe challenge of energy generation from biodegradation of recalcitrant organics in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) is mainly attributed to their persistence to degradation under anaerobic condition in anode chamber of MFCs. In this work, we demonstrated that electricity generation from aniline, a typical recalcitrant organic matter under anaerobic condition was remarkably facilitated by employing oxygen into bioanode of MFCs. By exposing bioanode to air, electrons of 47.2 ± 6.9 C were recovered with aniline removal efficiency of 91.2 ± 2.2% in 144 h. Limited oxygen supply (the anodic headspace was initially filled with air and then closed) resulted in the decrease of electrons recovery and aniline removal efficiency by 52.5 ± 9.4% and 74.2 ± 2.1%, respectively, and further decline by respective 64.3 ± 4.5% and 82.7 ± 1.0% occurred under anaerobic condition. Community analysis showed that anode biofilm was predominated by several aerobic aniline degrading bacteria (AADB) and anode-respiration bacteria (ARB), which likely cooperated with each other and finally featured the energy recovery from aniline. Cyclic voltammetry indicated that anodic bacteria transferred electrons to anode mainly through electron shuttle. This study provided a new sight to acquaint us with the positive role of oxygen in biodegradation of recalcitrant organics on anode as well as electricity generation.© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. w a t e r r e s e a r c h 8 1 ( 2 0 1 5 ) 7 2 e8 3

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Effects of furan derivatives and phenolic compounds on electricity generation in microbial fuel cells

Cited by 57 publications

References 24 publications

Bioelectrochemical systems for efficient recalcitrant wastes treatment

Bioelectrochemical systems for efficient recalcitrant wastes treatment

Integration of Microbial Electrolysis Cells (MECs) in the Biorefinery for Production of Ethanol, H2 and Phenolics

Stimulation of oxygen to bioanode for energy recovery from recalcitrant organic matter aniline in microbial fuel cells (MFCs)

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