Abstract
Microalgae, as potential biodiesel feedstocks, have been widely reported to accumulate oil via genetic engineering techniques, or environmental stress regulation. Recently, the utilization of fuel cell technology to convert biomass into electricity has attracted much more attention due to its high efficiency, low pollution, low noise by microalgae as feedstocks. Normally, platinum and analogous noble metals as catalysts have been already demonstrated although they still exist lots of shortcomings. This mini review presents an overview of various fuel cell technologies with phosphomolybdic acid as catalysts for sustainable energy by using microalgae. Trends from literatures demonstrate that algal-based fuel cells could efficiently generate electricity, and concurrently produce high value-added products. This critical review can provide guiding suggestions for future study of algal-based energy conversion by fuel cell techniques.
Highlights
In this resource-exhausted era, the imminent need is to develop sustainable and renewable energy sources since the immoderate fossil fuels extraction and usage which have already caused economic and environmental loss
This review critically provides some promising applications that using microalgae in microbial fuel cell (MFC)
Algal-based fuel cell has been extensively developed in laboratory scale with good performance, it still cannot be utilized in industrial applications due to several limited factors
Summary
In this resource-exhausted era, the imminent need is to develop sustainable and renewable energy sources since the immoderate fossil fuels extraction and usage which have already caused economic and environmental loss The utilization of fuel cell technology to convert biomass into electricity has attracted much more attention due to its high efficiency, low pollution, low noise by microalgae as feedstocks. Trends from literatures demonstrate that algal-based fuel cells could efficiently generate electricity, and concurrently produce high value-added products.
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