Biology – Quantitative Biology – Biomolecules
Scientific paper
2011-09-29
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Biomolecules
Draft version. Accepted for publication in EXTREMOPHILES. "The final publication is available at springerlink.com"
Scientific paper
In this work two archaea microorganisms (Haloferax volcanii and Natrialba magadii) used as biocatalyst at a microbial fuel cell (MFC) anode were evaluated. Both archaea are able to grow at high salt concentrations. By increasing the media conductivity, the internal resistance was diminished, improving the MFCs performance. Without any added redox mediator, maximum power (Pmax) and current at Pmax were 11.87 / 4.57 / 0.12 {\mu}W cm-2 and 49.67 / 22.03 / 0.59 {\mu}A cm-2 for H. volcanii, N. magadii and E. coli, respectively. When neutral red was used as redox mediator, Pmax was 50.98 and 5.39 {\mu}W cm-2 for H. volcanii and N. magadii respectively. In this paper an archaea MFC is described and compared with other MFC systems; the high salt concentration assayed here, comparable with that used in Pt-catalyzed alkaline hydrogen fuel cells will open new options when MFC scaling-up is the objective, necessary for practical applications.
Abrevaya Ximena C.
Cortón Eduardo
Mauas Pablo J. D.
Saco N. J.
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