Microbial Fuel Cell: A Synergistic Flow Approach for Energy Power Generation and Wastewater Treatment

Abstract

Researchers have made momentous and significant efforts to discover sustainable and alternative energy sources owing to increase the apprehensions over energy crisis, environmental pollution, and climate change. In this regards, microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are major bioelectrochemical reactors for wastewater treatment and bioenergy production. They are friendly and sustainable to the environment and are considered as a novel application for maintaining the sustainability of the ecosystems. The following book chapter will be dealing with various successful research contributions by the team of Professor Chin Tsan Wang. An in-depth understanding of the flow parameters and their incorporation in MFCs has fascinated the researchers in our group for almost a decade. The integration of main technologies including hydrodynamics and microfluidics with MFCs have been explained in detail. Further, some innovative approaches of incorporating flow channels, micromixers, and flow straighteners into MFCs with the solitary objective of enhancing their power and wastewater treatment has also been elucidated. As far as our knowledge is concerned, flow characteristics have been less studied in MFCs, and we therefore consider that our novel attempts might contribute to widening the knowledge of such integrated technologies. Thus, based on the above-mentioned details we are determined that this book chapter will contribute to feasible and useful new concepts to the experts and provide interesting facts to the readers. This will eventually improve the future applications of MFCs in alternative energy production and wastewater treatment.