Congratulation to one of our DRF, Mr. Debajyoti Bose’s work done on Microbial fuel cells has been published as ‘Book Chapter’ in the book ‘Waste Bioremediation’ on Energy, Environment & Sustainability series, published by Springer, Germany.

Optimizing energy recovery from wastewater is a sustainable approach for wastewater treatment and is also of interests to protect and improve the water environment everywhere. There is a large gap between generation and treatment of wastewater for domestic wastewater in developing nations and to facilitate such energy recovery processes microbial fuel cells can be used. The energy utilization research in microbial fuel cells is growing exponentially, but it suffers from established terminology and methodical framework to analyze system functionality. The sheer diversity in the process employed makes it intricate to compare experimental analysis with each other. Studies of such are interdisciplinary with concepts of microbiology, integrated with electrochemistry to serve as a component of environmental engineering.
This chapter reports how the organic matter removal efficiency coupled with simultaneous bioelectricity production has been studied with pure and mixed microbial culture, which are naturally found or inoculated into wastewater streams. And how such alternate forms of energy harvesting by addressing and optimizing key parameters such as temperature, pH, and dissolved solutes can potentially contribute to energy security and economic stability across nations where a dire need of energy conversion crisis exist.