Cellulolytic and electrogenic activity of Enterobacter cloacae in mediatorless microbial fuel cell

Autor: Karolina Szymona, Hubert Madej, Agnieszka Bala, Wojciech Brutkowski, Krzysztof Krajewski, Renata Toczyłowska-Mamińska, Wan Zhen Wong, Paik San H'ng, Mariusz Mamiński
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Applied Energy. 160:88-93
ISSN: 0306-2619
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.09.067
Popis: Mediatorless cellulose-fed microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a bioelectrochemical system that converts cellulose into energy through cellulose-hydrolyzing and electrogenic activity of bacteria. In the paper it has been presented that Enterobacter cloacae isolated from termite gut exhibited both cellulose-degrading and exoelectrogenic activities that make it a valuable strain to be used in a cellulose-fed MFC. The maximum power and current densities obtained from the cellulose-fed MFC were 185 mW/m 2 and 2.4 A/m 2 , respectively. SEM micrographs of the anode showed that E. cloacae formed an expanded fibria system bounding bacteria cells into network attached to the electrode surface.
Databáze: OpenAIRE