Original Title:
Bioenergy production from tannery waste via a single-chamber Microbial Fuel Cell with steel anodes and Escherichia coli (E. coli)
Languages of Item:
English
Creator:
Pandis, Pavlos K.
Savvidou, Maria G.
Mamma, Diomi
Sourkouni, Georgia
Argirusis, Nikolaos
Stathopoulos, Vassilis N.
Argirusis, Christos
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Inorganic Materials Technology, School of Chemical Engineering, National
Technical University of Athens, , Zografou Campus, Athens,
Greece
Biotechnology Laboratory, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, Athens, Greece
Clausthal Centre for Materials Technology (CZM), Clausthal University of Technology,
Leibniz, Clausthal‑Zellerfeld, Germany
mat4nrg GmbH, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
Laboratory of Chemistry and Materials Technology, Department of Agricultural Development, Agrofood and Management of Natural Resources, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Psachna Campus, Evia, Greece
Abstract:
Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) are gaining popularity as cutting-edge biochemical reactors that
consume waste substrates in order for the electrogenic bacteria and/or enzyme cultures to
produce electricity and, simultaneously, to lower environmentally hazardous values of wastes.
Many different anodic and cathodic electrodes with many variants have been employed in
MFC designs, with ceramic and metal-based electrodes gaining favor over state-of-the-art
electrodes [1-4]. In this research, a single chamber microbial fuel cell was operated with
commercial steel sponges as anode electrodes, and ceramic electrodes as a cathode, whilst
the use of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria was evaluated as the bacteria for treating tannery
waste. Stainless steel electrodes outperformed carbon felt in terms of power generation and
COD tannery treatment. A COD decrease of almost 80% was achieved with stainless steel
followed by an increased power output of 50% in comparison with carbon-felt electrodes.
Main subject category:
Biotechnology
Other subject categories:
Βiochemical Engineering
Keywords:
electrogenic bacteria
electricity
enzymes
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references:
1. P.K. Pandis, T. Kamperidis, K. Bariamis, I. Vlachos, C. Argirusis, V.N. Stathopoulos, G. Lyberatos, A. Tremouli, Comparative Study of Different Production Methods of Activated Carbon Cathodic Electrodes in Single Chamber MFC Treating Municipal
Landfill Leachate, Applied Sciences, 12 (2022) 2991.
2. T. Kamperidis, P.K. Pandis, C. Argirusis, G. Lyberatos, A. Tremouli, Effect of Food Waste Condensate Concentration on the Performance of Microbial Fuel Cells with Different
Cathode Assemblies, Sustainability, 14 (2022) 2625.
3. Α. Tremouli, T. Kamperidis, P.K. Pandis, Ch. Argirusis, G. Lyberatos, Exploitation of digestate from thermophilic and mesophilic anaerobic digesters fed with fermentable food waste using the MFC technology, Waste and Biomass Valorization, (2021).
4. A. Tremouli, P.K. Pandis, T. Kamperidis, V.N. Stathopoulos, C. Argirusis, G. Lyberatos, Performance assessment of a four-air cathode membraneless microbial fuel cell stack for wastewater treatment and energy extraction, E3S Web of Conferences, 116 (2019) 00093.
