“…104,109 In addition, reactors inoculated with aerobic sludge have higher maximum voltages and longer high pressure durations than anaerobic sludge-inoculated reactors, which could be ascribed to the former containing a large number of facultative electrogenic bacteria. 47 Moreover, in three reactors inoculated with anaerobic sludge from a wastewater plant, rice paddy eld soil, and coastal lagoon sediment, the MFC inoculated with coastal lagoon sediment showed the highest performance in terms of the treatment time, and the results showed that the three different inoculum sources all contained functional electrical production groups, whereas different community members controlled the performances of the MFCs. 44 Therefore, it is concluded that the microbial constitution of the inoculum determines the BES performance.…”