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High Performance Activated Carbon Paper-Based electrode for Microbial Fuel Cells

Kenta Sato Dang-Trang Nguyen Daiki Fujita Ryuta Tobe Hisaaki Mihara Kozo Taguchi H. Park Y. Heo P. Kim K. Nahm M. Mashkour M. Rahimnejad Ming-Yue Xi Y.-P. Sun F. Offei A. Adhami S. Darvari A. Zirepour S. Oh N. Samsudeen S. Chavan T. Radhakrishnan M. Matheswaran J. Hayashi A. Kazehaya K. Muroyama A. Watkinson S. Manickam U. Karra L. Huang N. Bui B. Li J. McCutcheon V. Watson C. Delgado B. Logan

2019 · Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences · 0 citations · 9 references

Abstract

Mainly, there are two kinds of MFC configuration, which are double chamber type and single chamber type. A double chamber MFC consists of two chambers which are separated by proton exchange membrane (PEM). Microorganism produces electrons, protons and CO by decomposing organic substrates. The produced electrons are transferred from anode chamber to the cathode chamber through an external circuit, meantime, and the produced protons are passed thorough the PEM to cathode chamber. The electrons and protons transferred to cathode combined with oxygen in the air to form water with oxidizing agent [4][5]. On the other hand, a single chamber MFC has no cathode chamber, so cathode is directly exposed to the air. In this study, the doublechamber MFC is used. Although MFC is affordable and promising energy resources, power generation efficiency is relatively low

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