Tay, Zoe Hui-Yee and Ng, Fong-Lee and Ling, Tau-Chuan and Iwamoto, Mitsumasa and Phang, Siew-Moi (2022) The use of marine microalgae in microbial fuel cells, photosynthetic microbial fuel cells and biophotovoltaic platforms for bioelectricity generation. 3 Biotech, 12 (7). ISSN 2190-572X, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s13205-022-03214-2.
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Algal green energy has emerged as an alternative to conventional energy production using fossil fuels. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs), photosynthetic microbial fuel cells (PMFCs) and biophotovoltaic (BPV) platforms have been developed to utilize microalgae for bioelectricity generation, wastewater treatment and biomass production. There remains a lack of research on marine microalgae in these systems, so to the best of our knowledge, all information on their integration in these systems have been gathered in this review, and are used to compare with the interesting studies on freshwater microalgae. The performance of the systems is extremely reliant on the microalgae species and/or microbial community used, the size of the bio-electrochemical cell, and electrode material and distance used. The mean was calculated for each system, PMFC has the highest average maximum power density of 344 mW/m(2), followed by MFC (179 mW/m(2)) and BPV (58.9 mW/m(2)). In addition, the advantages and disadvantages of each system are highlighted. Although all three systems face the issue of low power outputs, the integration of a suitable energy harvester could potentially increase power efficiency and make them applicable for lower power applications.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia under the Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE) Programme (Grant No: IOES-2014F), UM Innovate Fund (Grant No: PPSI-2020HICOE-03), UM Research University Fund (Grant No: RU009I-2020 & RU009J-2020), UM Algae Grant (Grant No: GA003-2012) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Algal biotechnology; Bioelectricity; Biophotovoltaic platform; Microbial fuel cells; Renewable energy |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Institute of Biological Sciences Institute of Advanced Studies Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) Office > Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Oct 2023 09:52 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2023 09:52 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/42119 |
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