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Microbial Fuel Cell Research Using Animal Waste: A Feebly-Explored Area to Others

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Microbial fuel cell is a fast-growing technology and method for the energy recovery from wastewater treatment. The technology is so tempting that still researchers are carrying this out because of its potential benefits and other important resources. This chapter has attempted to focus on the production of energy from various sources such as domestic waste, industrial waste, animal waste and sewage waste. Though there are more sources that are widely exploited in the anodic chamber, usage of animal waste has been limited hitherto. Hence, a brief introduction of animal waste used in MFC in terms of renewable energy has been provided to the readers. The pros and cons of using animal waste have to be kept in mind before using them in the microbial fuel cell.

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  1. Department of Life Sciences, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, 610005, India

    Deepika Jothinathan

  2. Department of Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology, Presidency College, Chennai, 600005, India

    A. H. Nasrin Fathima

  3. PG & Research Department of Botany, Pachaiyappa’s College, Chennai, 600030, India

    Prabhakaran Mylsamy

  4. Department of Environmental Sciences, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, 641046, India

    L. Benedict Bruno

  5. Department of Civil Engineering, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, 8528521, Japan

    Venkatraman Sivasankar

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Jothinathan, D., Nasrin Fathima, A.H., Mylsamy, P., Bruno, L.B., Sivasankar, V. (2018). Microbial Fuel Cell Research Using Animal Waste: A Feebly-Explored Area to Others. In: Sivasankar, V., Mylsamy, P., Omine, K. (eds) Microbial Fuel Cell Technology for Bioelectricity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92904-0_8

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