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- Dopson, Mark, et al.
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Possibilities for extremophilic microorganisms in microbial electrochemical systems
- 2016
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Ingår i: FEMS Microbiology Reviews. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0168-6445 .- 1574-6976. ; 40:2, s. 164-181
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Microbial electrochemical systems exploit the metabolism of microorganisms to generate electrical energy or a useful product. In the past couple of decades, the application of microbial electrochemical systems has increased from the use of wastewaters to produce electricity to a versatile technology that can use numerous sources for the extraction of electrons on the one hand, while on the other hand these electrons can be used to serve an ever increasing number of functions. Extremophilic microorganisms grow in environments that are hostile to most forms of life and their utilization in microbial electrochemical systems has opened new possibilities to oxidize substrates in the anode and produce novel products in the cathode. For example, extremophiles can be used to oxidize sulfur compounds in acidic pH to remediate wastewaters, generate electrical energy from marine sediment microbial fuel cells at low temperatures, desalinate wastewaters and act as biosensors of low amounts of organic carbon. In this review, we will discuss the recent advances that have been made in using microbial catalysts under extreme conditions and show possible new routes that extremophilic microorganisms open for microbial electrochemical systems.This review highlights the use of microbial electrochemical systems to catalyze environmental processes coupled to the production of energy or valuable resources and how utilizing extremophilic microorganisms opens up new possibilities such as bioremediation of environmentally hazardous wastes.This review highlights the use of microbial electrochemical systems to catalyze environmental processes coupled to the production of energy or valuable resources and how utilizing extremophilic microorganisms opens up new possibilities such as bioremediation of environmentally hazardous wastes.
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- Ni, Gaofeng, et al.
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Electricity generation from an inorganic sulfur compound containing mining wastewater by acidophilic microorganisms
- 2016
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Ingår i: Research in Microbiology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0923-2508 .- 1769-7123. ; 167:7, s. 568-575
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sulfide mineral processing often produces large quantities of wastewaters containing acid-generating inorganic sulfur compounds. If released untreated, these wastewaters can cause catastrophic environmental damage. In this study, microbial fuel cells were inoculated with acidophilic microorganisms to investigate whether inorganic sulfur compound oxidation can generate an electrical current. Cyclic voltammetry suggested that acidophilic microorganisms mediated electron transfer to the anode, and that electricity generation was catalyzed by microorganisms. A cation exchange membrane microbial fuel cell, fed with artificial wastewater containing tetrathionate as electron donor, reached a maximum whole cell voltage of 72 +/- 9 mV. Stepwise replacement of the artificial anolyte with real mining process wastewater had no adverse effect on bioelectrochemical performance and generated a maximum voltage of 105 +/- 42 mV. 16S rRNA gene sequencing of the microbial consortia resulted in sequences that aligned within the genera Thermoplasma, Ferroplasma, Leptospirillum, Sulfobacillus and Acidithiobacillus. This study opens up possibilities to bioremediate mining wastewater using microbial fuel cell technology. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS on behalf of Institut Pasteur.
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