Recent Trends and Prospects of Microbial Fuel Cell Technology for Energy Positive Wastewater Treatment Plants Treating Organic Waste Resources
- 1 October 2021
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Korean Society of Environmental Engineering in Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
- Vol. 43 (10) , 623-653
Abstract
Microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology is receiving a lot of attention recently as a promising technology for generating electricity by treating organic waste resources. Over the past 20 years, the MFC technology has made rapid progress: various research on system architectures, electrochemistry, materials, and microbiology has been conducted for developing practical ideas and fundamental principles. Recently, a lot of research on scaled-up systems for practical application is being conducted in the MFC field. In this review, materials, electrochemistry, system development and scale-up systems of MFCs studied so far are reviewed, and future prospects and directions of MFC technology are presented.Keywords
Funding Information
- Ministry of Science and ICT
- National Research Foundation of Korea (2021R1A2C1013989)
- Chonnam National University (2020-3907)
- Daejin University
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