Islam, M. Amirul and Ethiraj, Baranitharan and Cheng, C. K. and Yousuf, Abu and Thiruvenkadam, Selvakumar and Prasad, D. M. Reddy and Khan, Maksudur R. (2018) Enhanced current generation using mutualistic interaction of yeast-bacterial co-culture in dual chamber microbial fuel cell. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 57 (3). pp. 813-821. ISSN 0888-5885. (Published)
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Abstract
Although exogenous mediators can distinctly enhance the performance of yeast driven microbial fuel cell (MFC), the possibility of mediator’s toxicity, environmental risk, and cost are the main challenges facing toward its application in MFCs. Therefore, the use of naturally produced electron shuttles for unmediated yeast would be of great interest since it can solve most of the above-mentioned problems. The present study is to investigate the possibility of the use of electron shuttle producing bacteria Klebsiella pneumonia (K. pneumonia) to boost up the performance of yeast Lipomyces starkeyi (L. starkeyi) driven MFC. The MFCs inoculated with L. starkeyi and K. pneumoniae coculture achieved a maximum power density of 12.87 W/m3 which is about 3 and 6 times higher than that of MFC solely inoculated with pure yeast and bacteria, respectively, demonstrating that the yeast cells have successfully utilized the reduced electron shuttles excreted by the bacteria. The occurrence of the mutualistic interactions was further supported by the CV and EIS results. The findings of this work suggest that the use of mutualistic interaction of yeast and bacteria could be a new way to increase the performance of the MFCs.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Indexed by Scopus |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Bacteria; Fuel cells; Self assembly; Yeast |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Faculty/Division: | Centre of Excellence: Centre of Excellence for Advanced Research in Fluid Flow Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering |
| Depositing User: | Noorul Farina Arifin |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Mar 2018 02:33 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Oct 2018 07:38 |
| URI: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/20004 |
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