Electron carriers increase electricity production in methane microbial fuel cells that reverse methanogenesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We previously reversed methanogenesis in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) to produce electricity for the first time from methane by combining an engineered archaeal strain that produces methyl-coenzyme M reductase from unculturable anaerobic methanotrophs (to capture methane and secrete acetate) with Geobacter sulfurreducens (to produce electrons from the generated acetate) and methane-acclimated sludge (to provide electron shuttles).

Results

Here, the power density in MFCs was increased 77-fold to 5216 mW/m² and the current density in MFCs was increased 73-fold to 7.3 A/m² by reducing the surface area of the cathode (to make reasonable comparisons to other MFCs), by changing the order the strains of the consortium were added to the anode c

SUBMITTER: Yamasaki R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6058355 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature