Microbial Electrolysis Cells (MECs) as Innovative Technology for Sustainable Hydrogen Production: Fundamentals and Perspective Applications

Electrochemical hydrogen production from biomass

“…(highest efficiency of the electro-reformer), or a given value-added compounds (no separation processes), is mandatory. The coupling with other activation methods (sonochemistry, enzymes, bacteria, etc) 35,36 can also help to improve activity and/or selectivity.…”

A Glimpse of the World of Volatile Fatty Acids Production and Application: A review

“…Highest cumulative H 2 was obtained at pH 2.0, DC voltage 3 and VFAs concentration of 5 g/L [ 181 ]. One more effective method is to use microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) also known as bio-electrochemically assisted microbial reactor [ 186 ]. MEC generates the H 2 from organic substrate by applying an electric current.…”

Microbial Electrochemical Technologies

“…It is a high calorific value fuel, and has the highest energy content per unit weight in comparison to other gaseous fuels (Kadier et al 2016a;Kadier et al 2018a). H 2 can be generated biologically by various methods, including dark fermentation (DF), photo fermentation and biophotolysis (Nikolaidis and Poullikkas, 2017;Kadier et al 2017b). However, in the said processes the complete utilization of substrate is not possible as the metabolic pathway of the microorganisms directs the synthesis of alternative by-products (Rai and Singh 2016).…”