Current production by bacterial communities in microbial fuel cells enriched from wastewater sludge with different electron donors

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1139-1146

  Kan, Jinjun ^a   Hsu, Lewis ^b   Cheung, Andrea C M ^a   Pirbazari, Massoud ^b   Nealson, Kenneth H ^a  

^a Department of Earth Sciences ^*  (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MEMBER; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTERIAL POPULATION; CROSS-FEEDING; CURRENT PRODUCTION; ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; ELECTRON DONORS; FIRMICUTES; FUEL SOURCE; MICROBIAL ASSEMBLAGE; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PURE CULTURE; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS MR-1; SHEWANELLA STRAIN; WASTEWATER SLUDGE;

CELL CULTURE; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; FUEL CELLS; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS; WASTEWATER;

BACTERIOLOGY;

ACETIC ACID; FORMIC ACID; SUCCINIC ACID; URIDINE;

BACTERIUM; CELL ORGANELLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DOMINANCE; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON; FUEL CELL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PLANKTON; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SLUDGE; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; ELECTRON; FIRMICUTES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; NONHUMAN; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS; SLUDGE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ACETATES; BACTERIA; BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRONS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FORMIC ACIDS; LACTIC ACID; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; SHEWANELLA; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; SHEWANELLA; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS MR-1;

EID: 79851472641     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es102645v     Document Type: Article

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