Microbial Fuel Cell: Recent Developments in Organic Substrate Use and Bacterial Electrode Interaction

Table 2

Different MFC performances with their respective anode.

Substrate	Anode	Bacteria	Configuration of the system	Maximum PD (mW/m^2)	References
Glucose	Carbon paper	Geobacter SPP (firmicutes)	Two-chamber		[87]
Glucose	Graphite	Saccharomyces cerevisiae	Two-chamber	16	[88]
Acetate	Carbon paper	G. sulfurreducens	Two-chamber		[87]
Lactate	Carbon paper	Geobacter SPP	Two-chamber		[87]
Ethanol	—	Betaproteobacteria	Two-chamber		[89]
Cysteine	Carbon paper	Gammaproteobacteria and Shewanella affinis (KMM3586)	Two-chamber	36	[30]
Marine sediment reached in acetate	Graphite	Deltaproteobacteria	Two-chamber	14	[90]
Marine sediment	Noncorroding graphite	Desulfuromonas spp.	Two-chamber	25.4–26.6	[91]
Sewage sludge	Graphite with Mn^4+	Escherichia coli	Single chamber	91	[92]
Sewage sludge	Graphite with neutral red (NR)	Escherichia coli	Single chamber	152	[92]
Sewage sludge	Platinum and polyanilineco-modified	Escherichia coli	Single chamber	6000	[93]
Glucose	Composite electrode (graphite/PTFE)	Escherichia coli	Single chamber	760	[86]
Glucose	Teflon-treated carbon fiber paper	Electrochemically active bacteria	Two-chamber (H-type MFC)	15.2	[94]
Lactose	“	“	“	17.2	[95]
Cellulose	Nonwet proof carbon paper	Cellulose-degrading bacteria	“	188	[96]
Glucose	Graphite plates	Mixed culture	Two-chamber air-cathode MFC	283	[97]
Glucose	Carbon paper with PPY-CNTs	Escherichia coli	DCMFC	228	[98]