Microbial fuel cells / Bruce E. Logan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Logan, Bruce E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microbial fuel cells.

Biomass energy.

Microbial biotechnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The theory, design, construction, and operation of microbial fuel cellsMicrobial fuel cells (MFCs), devices in which bacteria create electrical power by oxidizing simple compounds such as glucose or complex organic matter in wastewater, represent a new and promising approach for generating power. Not only do MFCs clean wastewater, but they also convert organics in these wastewaters into usable energy. Given the world's limited supply of fossil fuels and fossil fuels' impact on climate change, MFC technology's ability to create renewable, carbon-neutral energy has generated tremendous i

Contents:

Microbial Fuel Cells; Contents; PREFACE; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Energy needs; 1.2. Energy and the challenge of global climate change; 1.3. Bioelectricity generation using a microbial fuel cell-the process of electrogenesis; 1.4. MFCs and energy sustainability of the water infrastructure; 1.5. MFC technologies for wastewater treatment; 1.6. Renewable energy generation using MFCs; 1.7. Other applications of MFC technologies; 2. Exoelectrogens; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Mechanisms of electron transfer; 2.3. MFC studies using known exoelectrogenic strains; 2.4. Community analysis

2.5. MFCs as tools for studying exoelectrogens3. Voltage Generation; 3.1. Voltage and current; 3.2. Maximum voltages based on thermodynamic relationships; 3.3. Anode potentials and enzyme potentials; 3.4. Role of communities versus enzymes in setting anode potentials; 3.5. Voltage generation by fermentative bacteria?; 4. Power Generation; 4.1. Calculating power; 4.2. Coulombic and energy efficiency; 4.3. Polarization and power density curves; 4.4. Measuring internal resistance; 4.5. Chemical and electrochemical analysis of reactors; 5. Materials

5.1. Finding low-cost, highly efficient materials5.2. Anode materials; 5.3. Membranes and separators (and chemical transport through them); 5.4. Cathode materials; 5.5. Long-term stability of different materials; 6. Architecture; 6.1. General requirements; 6.2. Air-cathode MFCs; 6.3. Aqueous cathodes using dissolved oxygen; 6.4. Two-chamber reactors with soluble catholytes or poised potentials; 6.5. Tubular packed bed reactors; 6.6. Stacked MFCs; 6.7. Metal catholytes; 6.8. Biohydrogen MFCs; 6.9. Towards a scalable MFC architecture; 7. Kinetics and Mass Transfer

7.1. Kinetic- or mass transfer-based models?7.2. Boundaries on rate constants and bacterial characteristics; 7.3. Maximum power from a monolayer of bacteria; 7.4. Maximum rate of mass transfer to a biofilm; 7.5. Mass transfer per reactor volume; 8. MECs for Hydrogen Production; 8.1. Principle of operation; 8.2. MEC systems; 8.3. Hydrogen yield; 8.4. Hydrogen recovery; 8.5. Energy recovery; 8.6. Hydrogen losses; 8.7. Differences between the MEC and MFC systems; 9. MFCs for Wastewater Treatment; 9.1. Process trains for WWTPs; 9.2. Replacement of the biological treatment reactor with an MFC

9.3. Energy balances for WWTPs9.4. Implications for reduced sludge generation; 9.5. Nutrient removal; 9.6. Electrogenesis versus methanogenesis; 10. Other MFC Technologies; 10.1. Different applications for MFC-based technologies; 10.2. Sediment MFCs; 10.3. Enhanced sediment MFCs; 10.4. Bioremediation using MFC technologies; 11. Fun!; 11.1 MFCs for new scientists and inventors; 11.2 Choosing your inoculum and media; 11.3 MFC materials: electrodes and membranes; 11.4 MFC architectures that are easy to build; 11.5 MEC reactors; 11.6 Operation and assessment of MFCs; 12. Outlook

12.1 MFCs yesterday and today

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-198) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9786611217402

9781281217400

1281217409

9780470258590

0470258594

9781601198488

1601198485

9780470258583

0470258586

OCLC:

297606014