Carmona, A. and Lacroix, R. and Trably, E. and Da Silva, S. and Bernet, N. (2018) On the actual anode area that contributes to the current density produced by electroactive biofilms. Electrochimica Acta, 259. pp. 395-401. ISSN 00134686
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Even with an increasing interest in scaling-up Microbial Electrochemical Technologies (MET), it is still common to focus on their “fundamentals”. An important example is the production of current density (jmax) by microbial anodes in a three-electrode arrangement (3 EA) configuration, e.g.: a graphite plate of well-defined projected (or geometric) surface area (PSA) and a cathode, both parallel to each other. With such type of anode within a 3 EA configuration, jmax‘s calculation is expected to be straightforward. Nonetheless, certain issues prevail. Occasionally, jmax is wrongly overestimated neglecting the surface of the anode that does not directly face the cathode. Here, grown biofilms of the novel electroactive bacterium Geoalkalibacter subterraneus showed that the actual area of anode that contributes to jmax is the total PSA (or apparent geometric area) immersed in the electrolyte available to form a biofilm regardless the side of the anode that faced or opposed the cathode even in a medium with low conductivity such as urban wastewater, a niche of application for METs. For the sake of normalization, researchers (and especially a “freshman” microbial electrochemist) are encouraged to: A) use the total PSA (or apparent geometric area) immersed in the electrolyte to calculate jmax or B) to cover edges and faces hidden of the anode with an electrical insulator to allow the flow of current on the side of the anode that directly faces the cathode prior calculation of jmax. This normalization can be conducted when the main goal is to quantify (and thus properly report) jmax produced when using (e.g.): a novel i) electroactive bacterium, ii) electrode material or iii) reactor design.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering |
| Depositing User: | José Ángel Gómez Martín |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Mar 2018 12:53 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Mar 2018 13:23 |
| URI: | http://eprints.imdea-agua.org:13000/id/eprint/876 |
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