Microbial Interconversion of Alkanes to Electricity

Microbial degradation of high-molecular-weight alkanes.

Measurements of biological O(2) demand showed that normal alkanes containing up to 44 carbon atoms were metabolized by microorganisms.

Microbial Fuel Cell: A New Alternative Technology to Generate Electricity from Organic Matter

Microbial community optimization for electricity generation in Microbial Fuel Cells

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are a type of fuel cells that use bacteria as biocatalyst to oxidize an organic substrate to release electrons, which can be harvested in an external circuit to produce electric energy. This technology hold the potential to help overcome energetic problems and at the same time treat waste water more efficiently than the current employed techniques. Despite all this p...

Microbial treatment of swine fecal waste to generate long-chain linear alkanes after fast pyrolysis

Microbial treatment of swine fecal waste to generate long-chain linear alkanes after fast pyrolysis" (2010).

Extension of Linear Isotherm Regularity to Long Chain Alkanes

In this work, we consider each normal alkane as a hypothetical mixtureof methyland methylene groups, in which the interaction potential of each pair is assumed to be the average effective pair potential. Then, the LIR equation of state (EOS) is extended for such a hypothetical mixture. Also, three basic compounds, namely, propane, n-butane and cyclohexane, are used to obtain the contributio...