Generation of electricity and analysis of microbial communities in wheat straw biomass-powered microbial fuel cells

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3389-3395

  Zhang, Yifeng ^a,b   Min, Booki ^a,c   Huang, Liping ^b   Angelidaki, Irini ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION OF; COULOMBIC EFFICIENCY; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; POWER DENSITIES; WHEAT STRAWS;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOFILMS; BIOMASS; CELL MEMBRANES; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FUEL CELLS; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS; OXYGEN;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

GENOMIC DNA; HEMICELLULOSE; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FUEL CELL; IMMOBILIZATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; STRAW; WHEAT;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTEROIDES; BIOFILM; BIOMASS; BIOMASS ENERGY; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY RESOURCE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RENEWABLE ENERGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WHEAT;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; BIOFILMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTRICITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRITICUM;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTEROIDETES; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 66249136701     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02240-08     Document Type: Article

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