State of the Art and Environmental Aspects of Plant Microbial Fuel Cells’ Application

Lepikash, Roman; Lavrova, Daria; Stom, Devard; Meshalkin, Valery; Ponamoreva, Olga; Alferov, Sergey

doi:10.3390/en17030752

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State of the Art and Environmental Aspects of Plant Microbial Fuel Cells’ Application

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Roman Lepikash

^1,2,

Daria Lavrova

^1,2,

Devard Stom

^3,4,5,

Valery Meshalkin

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Olga Ponamoreva

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Sergey Alferov

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Laboratory of Ecological and Medical Biotechnology, Tula State University, Friedrich Engels Street 157, 300012 Tula, Russia

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Biotechnology Department, Tula State University, Pr. Lenina 92, 300012 Tula, Russia

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Research Institute of Biology, Irkutsk State University, Karl Marks Street 1, 664003 Irkutsk, Russia

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Baikal Museum of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Akademicheskaya Street 1, 664520 Listvyanka, Russia

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Institute of Natural and Technical Sciences, Surgut State University, Energetikov Street 22, 628412 Surgut, Russia

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Department of Logistics and Economic Informatics, International Institute of Resource Saving Logistics and Technological Innovation, Dmitry Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, 125047 Moscow, Russia

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World-Class Laboratory «LaMiUr», Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Technology, Moscow Prosp. 24-26/49, 190013 Saint-Petersburg, Russia

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Energies 2024, 17(3), 752; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17030752

Submission received: 15 November 2023 / Revised: 29 January 2024 / Accepted: 1 February 2024 / Published: 5 February 2024

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell)

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Environmental pollution is becoming ubiquitous; it has a negative impact on ecosystem diversity and worsens the quality of human life. This review discusses the possibility of applying the plant microbial fuel cells (PMFCs) technology for concurrent processes of electricity generation and the purification of water and soil ecosystems from organic pollutants, particularly from synthetic surfactants and heavy metals. The review describes PMFCs’ functioning mechanisms and highlights the issues of PMFCs’ environmental application. Generally, this work summarizes different approaches to PMFC development and to the potential usage of such hybrid bioelectrochemical systems for environmental protection.

Keywords: plant microbial fuel cell; electrogenic microorganisms; biofuel cells; synthetic surfactants; ecosystem cleaning; reduction of greenhouse gases; environmental protection

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Lepikash, R.; Lavrova, D.; Stom, D.; Meshalkin, V.; Ponamoreva, O.; Alferov, S. State of the Art and Environmental Aspects of Plant Microbial Fuel Cells’ Application. Energies 2024, 17, 752. https://doi.org/10.3390/en17030752

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Lepikash R, Lavrova D, Stom D, Meshalkin V, Ponamoreva O, Alferov S. State of the Art and Environmental Aspects of Plant Microbial Fuel Cells’ Application. Energies. 2024; 17(3):752. https://doi.org/10.3390/en17030752

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Lepikash, Roman, Daria Lavrova, Devard Stom, Valery Meshalkin, Olga Ponamoreva, and Sergey Alferov. 2024. "State of the Art and Environmental Aspects of Plant Microbial Fuel Cells’ Application" Energies 17, no. 3: 752. https://doi.org/10.3390/en17030752

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Lepikash, R., Lavrova, D., Stom, D., Meshalkin, V., Ponamoreva, O., & Alferov, S. (2024). State of the Art and Environmental Aspects of Plant Microbial Fuel Cells’ Application. Energies, 17(3), 752. https://doi.org/10.3390/en17030752

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