TY - JOUR
T1 - Recent advances in microbial electrosynthesis system
T2 - Metabolic investigation and process optimization
AU - Al-Mamun, Abdullah
AU - Ahmed, Waqar
AU - Jafary, Tahereh
AU - Nayak, Jagdeep Kumar
AU - Al-Nuaimi, Ali
AU - Sana, Ahmad
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2023/7/1
Y1 - 2023/7/1
N2 - The intensified burning of fossil fuels and the discharging of industrial wastes are severe threats to the environment. The released CO2 and organic fractions of industrial and municipal wastes exacerbate global warming. Converting the released CO2 and organic wastes into beneficial electricity and biofuel-chemicals is deemed an environmental necessity. Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) presents a promising technology for bio-electrochemical conversion of released CO2 and organic wastes into electricity and biofuel-chemicals using external-powered and/or self-powered microbial oxidation/reduction processes. The MES system consists of anodic and cathodic processes. The technology mostly relies on the capacity of electron transfer from electroactive biofilm to the electrode for reducing organics into value-added chemicals and sustaining their respiration and growth. The current review aims to summarize and explore the diversified application of electrogenic microbes and their metabolic pathways of electron transfer. It also summarizes the MES reactor design and operational parameters that influence the catalysis of biofilm and hence, the system performance. The review concludes with a critical evaluation of technical challenges that should be overcome before large-scale implementation. Furthermore, various recommendations on technical perspectives for successful implementation and application, including future research directions, are presented in this study.
AB - The intensified burning of fossil fuels and the discharging of industrial wastes are severe threats to the environment. The released CO2 and organic fractions of industrial and municipal wastes exacerbate global warming. Converting the released CO2 and organic wastes into beneficial electricity and biofuel-chemicals is deemed an environmental necessity. Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) presents a promising technology for bio-electrochemical conversion of released CO2 and organic wastes into electricity and biofuel-chemicals using external-powered and/or self-powered microbial oxidation/reduction processes. The MES system consists of anodic and cathodic processes. The technology mostly relies on the capacity of electron transfer from electroactive biofilm to the electrode for reducing organics into value-added chemicals and sustaining their respiration and growth. The current review aims to summarize and explore the diversified application of electrogenic microbes and their metabolic pathways of electron transfer. It also summarizes the MES reactor design and operational parameters that influence the catalysis of biofilm and hence, the system performance. The review concludes with a critical evaluation of technical challenges that should be overcome before large-scale implementation. Furthermore, various recommendations on technical perspectives for successful implementation and application, including future research directions, are presented in this study.
KW - Biochemical/Biofuel production
KW - Metabolic investigation
KW - Microbial electrosynthesis
KW - Process optimization
KW - Waste utilization
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U2 - 10.1016/j.bej.2023.108928
DO - 10.1016/j.bej.2023.108928
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85152725612
SN - 1369-703X
VL - 196
JO - Biochemical Engineering Journal
JF - Biochemical Engineering Journal
M1 - 108928
ER -