Environmental Catalysis: Special Topic on Microbial Fuel Cell and Wastewater Treatment
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2025) | Viewed by 3263
Special Issue Editors
Interests: synthesis and characterization of materials for electrochemical and photoelectrochemical processes; electrocatalysis for wastewater treatment and energy production; microbial fuel cells; hydrogen production by electrolysis
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Interests: water and wastewater treatment technologies; water, soil and air quality; environmental health and safety; environmental management and risk assessment; energy and resource recovery
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are devices that convert the chemical energy contained in organic substrates into electrical energy through the action of microorganisms. The use of wastewater as a raw material for this technology can be a sustainable way to combine electricity production with wastewater treatment. The mild operating conditions and reduction of energy consumption, sludge formation, and related costs are some of the advantages of using MFCs for wastewater treatment. However, some issues hinder its large-scale application, including low power output, difficulty scaling up the system, and the costs of materials, such as using proton exchange membranes and precious metals as catalysts.
Therefore, this Special Issue aims to collect new research to address these issues, from the synthesis and characterization of low-cost catalysts to the development of alternative materials to replace membranes, cell design, biofilm activity, and the reaction kinetics and the modelling/simulation of MFCs.
Prof. Dr. Annalisa Vacca
Dr. Ciro Bustillo-Lecompte
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microbial fuel cells
- wastewater treatment
- energy production
- catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction
- platinum group metal-free catalysts
- bio-electrochemical systems
- microbial fuel cell design
- microbial fuel cell modeling
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