Urine in Bioelectrochemical Systems: An Overall Review. [PDF]
ChemElectroChem, 2020 AbstractIn recent years, human urine has been successfully used as an electrolyte and organic substrate in bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) mainly due of its unique properties. Urine contains organic compounds that can be utilised as a fuel for energy recovery in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and it has high nutrient concentrations including nitrogen ...
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Progress and Prospects of Bioelectrochemical Systems: Electron Transfer and Its Applications in the Microbial Metabolism [PDF]
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2020 Bioelectrochemical systems are revolutionary new bioengineering technologies which integrate microorganisms or enzymes with the electrochemical method to improve the reducing or oxidizing metabolism.
Tianwen Zheng +9 more
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Synergistic Effect of Magnetite and Bioelectrochemical Systems on Anaerobic Digestion [PDF]
Bioengineering, 2021 Conventionally, the anaerobic digestion of industrial effluent to biogas constitutes less than 65% methane, which warrants its potential methanation to mitigate carbon dioxide and other anthropogenic gas emissions.
Nhlanganiso Ivan Madondo +3 more
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Electron transfer of extremophiles in bioelectrochemical systems. [PDF]
Extremophiles, 2022 AbstractThe interaction of bacteria and archaea with electrodes is a relatively new research field which spans from fundamental to applied research and influences interdisciplinary research in the fields of microbiology, biochemistry, biotechnology as well as process engineering.
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Carbon Resources Conversion, 2021 Living organisms' energy conversion is considered as an essential and sustainable green energy source and future bio-hybrid technologies. Recently, plants were used after harvesting as biomass in bio-fermentation as an energy source.
Enas Taha Sayed +6 more
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Recent Advances in Bioelectrochemical Systems for Nitrogen and Phosphorus Recovery Using Membranes [PDF]
Membranes, 2023 Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) have emerged as a technology that is able to recover resources from different kinds of substrates, especially wastewater.
Míriam Cerrillo +2 more
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Biochemical production with microbial bioelectrochemical systems.
Curr Opin BiotechnolMicrobial bioelectrochemical systems (BES) represent a promising platform for sustainable biochemical production by leveraging microbial electrocatalysis. These systems utilize electrical energy to drive microbial metabolic processes, enabling the recovery of CO₂ into valuable organic molecules such as methane, acetate, ethanol, and other biochemicals.
Boto ST, Cristiani L, Rosenbaum MA.
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Microbial electricity-driven anaerobic phenol degradation in bioelectrochemical systems [PDF]
Environmental Science and EcotechnologyMicrobial electrochemical technologies have been extensively employed for phenol removal. Yet, previous research has yielded inconsistent results, leaving uncertainties regarding the feasibility of phenol degradation under strictly anaerobic conditions ...
Shixiang Dai +5 more
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Magnet anode enhances extracellular electron transfer and enrichment of exoelectrogenic bacteria in bioelectrochemical systems [PDF]
Biotechnology for Biofuels, 2019 Background Optimizing the ability of exoelectrogens is a key factor in boosting the overall efficiency of bioelectrochemical systems. In this study, we construct magnetic microbial fuel cells (MFCs) with magnets with different static magnetic field (SMF)
Huihui Zhou +4 more
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Understanding the limitations of substrate degradation in bioelectrochemical systems [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyMicrobial Fuel Cells (MFCs) are innovative environmental engineering systems that harness the metabolic activities of microbial communities to convert chemical energy in waste into electrical energy.
Hannah Bird +2 more
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