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Generation of green electricity from sludge using photo-stimulated bacterial consortium as a sustainable technology

Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a bio-electrical energy generator that uses respiring microbes to transform organic matter present in sludge into electrical energy. The primary goal of this work was to introduce a new approach to the green electricity generation technology. In this context a total of 6...

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Published in:Microbial cell factories 2023-09, Vol.22 (1), p.1-183, Article 183
Main Authors: Othman, Amal S, Ahmed, Nashwa A, Elneklawi, Mona S, Hassan, Mansour M, El-Mongy, Mahmoud Abd
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Summary:Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a bio-electrical energy generator that uses respiring microbes to transform organic matter present in sludge into electrical energy. The primary goal of this work was to introduce a new approach to the green electricity generation technology. In this context a total of 6 bacterial isolates were recovered from sludge samples collected from El-Sheikh Zayed water purification plant, Egypt, and screened for their electrogenic potential. The most promising isolates were identified according to 16S rRNA sequencing as Escherichia coli and Enterobacter cloacae, promising results were achieved on using them in consortium at optimized values of pH (7.5), temperature (30[degrees]C) and substrate (glucose/pyruvate 1%). Low level red laser ([lambda] = 632.8nm, 8mW) was utilized to promote the electrogenic efficiency of the bacterial consortium, maximum growth was attained at 210 sec exposure interval. In an application of adding standard inoculum (10.sup.7 cfu/mL) of the photo-stimulated bacterial consortium to sludge based MFC a significant increase in the output potential difference values were recorded, the electricity generation was maintained by regular supply of external substrate. These results demonstrate the future development of the dual role of MFCs in renewable energy production and sludge recycling.
ISSN:1475-2859
1475-2859
DOI:10.1186/s12934-023-02187-y