Microbial Fuel Cells -- Contents -- PREFACE -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Energy needs -- 1.2. Energy and the challenge of global climate change -- 1.3. Bioelectricity generation using a microbial fuel cell-the process of electrogenesis -- 1.4. MFCs and energy sustainability of the water infrastructure -- 1.5. MFC technologies for wastewater treatment -- 1.6. Renewable energy generation using MFCs -- 1.7. Other applications of MFC technologies -- 2. Exoelectrogens -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Mechanisms of electron transfer -- 2.3. MFC studies using known exoelectrogenic strains -- 2.4. Community analysis -- 2.5. MFCs as tools for studying exoelectrogens -- 3. Voltage Generation -- 3.1. Voltage and current -- 3.2. Maximum voltages based on thermodynamic relationships -- 3.3. Anode potentials and enzyme potentials -- 3.4. Role of communities versus enzymes in setting anode potentials -- 3.5. Voltage generation by fermentative bacteria? -- 4. Power Generation -- 4.1. Calculating power -- 4.2. Coulombic and energy efficiency -- 4.3. Polarization and power density curves -- 4.4. Measuring internal resistance -- 4.5. Chemical and electrochemical analysis of reactors -- 5. Materials -- 5.1. Finding low-cost, highly efficient materials -- 5.2. Anode materials -- 5.3. Membranes and separators (and chemical transport through them) -- 5.4. Cathode materials -- 5.5. Long-term stability of different materials -- 6. Architecture -- 6.1. General requirements -- 6.2. Air-cathode MFCs -- 6.3. Aqueous cathodes using dissolved oxygen -- 6.4. Two-chamber reactors with soluble catholytes or poised potentials -- 6.5. Tubular packed bed reactors -- 6.6. Stacked MFCs -- 6.7. Metal catholytes -- 6.8. Biohydrogen MFCs -- 6.9. Towards a scalable MFC architecture -- 7. Kinetics and Mass Transfer -- 7.1. Kinetic- or mass transfer-based models?.

7.2. Boundaries on rate constants and bacterial characteristics -- 7.3. Maximum power from a monolayer of bacteria -- 7.4. Maximum rate of mass transfer to a biofilm -- 7.5. Mass transfer per reactor volume -- 8. MECs for Hydrogen Production -- 8.1. Principle of operation -- 8.2. MEC systems -- 8.3. Hydrogen yield -- 8.4. Hydrogen recovery -- 8.5. Energy recovery -- 8.6. Hydrogen losses -- 8.7. Differences between the MEC and MFC systems -- 9. MFCs for Wastewater Treatment -- 9.1. Process trains for WWTPs -- 9.2. Replacement of the biological treatment reactor with an MFC -- 9.3. Energy balances for WWTPs -- 9.4. Implications for reduced sludge generation -- 9.5. Nutrient removal -- 9.6. Electrogenesis versus methanogenesis -- 10. Other MFC Technologies -- 10.1. Different applications for MFC-based technologies -- 10.2. Sediment MFCs -- 10.3. Enhanced sediment MFCs -- 10.4. Bioremediation using MFC technologies -- 11. Fun! -- 11.1 MFCs for new scientists and inventors -- 11.2 Choosing your inoculum and media -- 11.3 MFC materials: electrodes and membranes -- 11.4 MFC architectures that are easy to build -- 11.5 MEC reactors -- 11.6 Operation and assessment of MFCs -- 12. Outlook -- 12.1 MFCs yesterday and today -- 12.2 Challenges for bringing MFCs to commercialization -- 12.3 Accomplishments and outlook -- Notation -- References -- Index.