Plant microbial fuel cell applied in wetlands: Spatial, temporal and potential electricity generation of Spartina anglica salt marshes and Phragmites australis peat soils

Wetser, Koen; Liu, Jia; Buisman, C.J.N.; Strik, D.P.B.T.B.

doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2015.11.006

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“…Wetlands are important habitats for many species of plants and animals at both national and international levels (Skeffington et al 2006;Hebb et al 2013;Wetser et al 2015). A contribution to our understanding of how a community is put together, how it works, what determines the relative proportions of community members, and their spatial and temporal relationships with each other might contain something of value for describing wetlands.…”

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Distribution patterns of plant communities and their associations with environmental soil factors on the eastern shore of Lake Taihu, China

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Zhao

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Ecosyst Health Sustain

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Introduction: Plant communities and soil factors might interact with each other in different temporal and spatial scales, which can influence the patterns and processes of the wetland ecosystem. To get a better understanding of the distribution of plants in wetlands and analyze their associations with environmental soil factors, the structure and types of plant communities in the eastern shore area of Lake Taihu were analyzed by two-way indicator species analysis and canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) ordination. The spatial distribution patterns of vegetation and the main factors affecting the distributions were investigated. Outcomes: Sixty-six sampling sites were selected to obtain vegetation species and soil environmental factor data. Results showed that 22 species from the 66 sites could be divided into seven communities: I: Arundo donax; II: A. donax + Phragmites australis; III: Zizania latifolia + Typha orientalis; IV: P. australis + Alternanthera philoxeroides + Polygonum hydropiper; V: P. australis; VI: P. australis + Humulus scandens; and VII: Erigeron acer + Ipomoea batatas + Rumex acetosa. Plant species and soil factors in the CCA analysis showed that I. batatas, E. acer, Chenopodium album, Polygonum lapathifolium, and Acalypha australis were mainly affected by pH, whereas Echinochloa crus-galli, Setaria viridis, and H. scandens were mainly affected by soil total phosphorus. Mentha canadensis and A. donax were mainly affected by soil conductivity, A. philoxeroides was mainly affected by soil organic matter and, Z. latifolia, Metaplexis japonica and P. hydropiper were mainly affected by available phosphorus. Conclusion:These results indicated that different plants adapted to different soil environmental factors and provided basic information on the diversity of Lake Taihu wetland vegetation.

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Distribution patterns of plant communities and their associations with environmental soil factors on the eastern shore of Lake Taihu, China

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“…In a few works, cathode is considered at water surface as well to more exposure to air . Plant MFC concept has been explored using bacteria of plant roots that has the potential of generating power density in the range of 3 Wm 3 . Based on the plant MFC concept, Oryza Sativa plants with bacteria is presented in this work.…”

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“…15 Plant MFC concept has been explored using bacteria of plant roots that has the potential of generating power density in the range of 3 Wm 3 . 16 Based on the plant MFC concept, Oryza Sativa plants with bacteria is presented in this work. Floating MFCs are other form of MFCs that is widely useful in natural water sources such as sea, river, dams, and lakes.…”

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Microbial fuel cell–based self‐powered biosensor for environment monitoring in IoT cloud framework

Saravanakumar

Rajeswari²

2019

Concurrency and Computation

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Summary Renewable energy sources are useful for sustainable monitoring, but still very limited today due to various implementation constraints. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are considered a promising renewable power source for remote monitoring applications. They are used as wireless temperature sensors and biosensors due to their ability in powering environmental sensors. MFCs can provide ultralow and dynamic power, and hence, energy improvement is crucial for self‐powered biosensors. Cloud computing–based IoT framework is proposed for environment monitoring using MFC‐based biosensors. This paper presents the electric energy harvesting from Oryza Sativa plants with bacteria as the catalyst. It adopts the technology of MFC in the plants to extract the maximum energy. An effective power management with IoT cloud framework is presented in this work to independently operate multiple MFCs to generate maximum power. Independently operated MFCs with electrically isolated electrodes have been utilized in the design of a suitable power management system. Cloud computing is utilized in this work to process the data generated in continuous monitoring of environment. Experimental results show that the proposed framework can achieve sustainable power for sensor nodes and achieves maximum performance in environment monitoring using cloud‐based IoT platform.

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“…The highest 2 weeks average power density of 240 mW/m 2 plant growth area was achieved in a Plant-MFC when integrated with an oxygen reducing biocathode [28]. For large scale application, Plant-MFC is potentially integrated in wetlands by which various functions could be combined including electricity generation, sediment remediation, plant growth support, and as protection of coastal areas [23,29].Plant-MFCs were embedded with vascular plants, macrophytes, and bryophytes as well as their combination with sediments, natural and constructed wetlands. From a recent review paper, at least 40 plant species have been utilized in the Plant-MFC system [30].…”

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Activated Carbon Mixed with Marine Sediment is Suitable as Bioanode Material for Spartina anglica Sediment/Plant Microbial Fuel Cell: Plant Growth, Electricity Generation, and Spatial Microbial Community Diversity

Sudirjo

Buisman

Strik

2019

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Wetlands cover a significant part of the world's land surface area. Wetlands are permanently or temporarily inundated with water and rich in nutrients. Therefore, wetlands equipped with Plant-Microbial Fuel Cells (Plant-MFC) can provide a new source of electricity by converting organic matter with the help of electrochemically active bacteria. In addition, sediments provide a source of electron donors to generate electricity from available (organic) matters. Eight lab-wetlands systems in the shape of flat-plate Plant-MFC were constructed. Here, four wetland compositions with activated carbon and/or marine sediment functioning as anodes were investigated for their suitability as a bioanode in a Plant-MFC system. Results show that Spartina anglica grew in all of the Plant-MFCs, although the growth was less fertile in the 100% activated carbon (AC100) Plant-MFC. Based on long-term performance (2 weeks) under 1000 ohm external load, the 33% activated carbon (AC33) Plant-MFC outperformed the other Plant-MFCs in terms of current density (16.1 mA/m 2 plant growth area) and power density (1.04 mW/m 2 plant growth area). Results also show a high diversity of microbial communities dominated by Proteobacteria with 42.5-69.7% relative abundance. Principal Coordinates Analysis shows clear different bacterial communities between 100% marine sediment (MS100) Plant-MFC and AC33 Plant-MFC. This result indicates that the bacterial communities were affected by the anode composition. In addition, small worms (Annelida phylum) were found to live around the plant roots within the anode of the wetland with MS100. These findings show that the mixture of activated carbon and marine sediment are suitable material for bioanodes and could be useful for the application of Plant-MFC in a real wetland. Moreover, the usage of activated carbon could provide an additional function like wetland remediation or restoration, and even coastal protection. 2 of 23 production; carbon fixation and storage; flood mitigation and water storage; water treatment and purification; and habitats for biodiversity. About 5-10% of the world's land surface is covered by wetlands [2]. A recent study reported that the global wetland area is between 15 and 16 million km 2 , in which about 8.9-9.5% is coastal wetlands [3]. Unfortunately, despite their critical role wetlands are facing a serious problem of losses caused by human activities. A study has shown that at least 33% of global wetlands had been lost as of 2009 due to human activities [1]. This loss was comparable to a previous study reporting that between 1970 and 2008, natural wetland declined globally by about 30% [4].Sediment pollution by human activities is a major problem for wetland ecosystems [5]. By nature, wetland sediments are able to remedy themselves from pollutants, such as petroleum hydrocarbon pollutants, due to the presence of diverse microbial communities [6]. However, in some cases such as to control hydrophobic organic compounds (HOCs), an in-situ amendment by human interference is applied for ...

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Plant microbial fuel cell applied in wetlands: Spatial, temporal and potential electricity generation of Spartina anglica salt marshes and Phragmites australis peat soils

Cited by 57 publications

References 42 publications

Distribution patterns of plant communities and their associations with environmental soil factors on the eastern shore of Lake Taihu, China

Distribution patterns of plant communities and their associations with environmental soil factors on the eastern shore of Lake Taihu, China

Microbial fuel cell–based self‐powered biosensor for environment monitoring in IoT cloud framework

Activated Carbon Mixed with Marine Sediment is Suitable as Bioanode Material for Spartina anglica Sediment/Plant Microbial Fuel Cell: Plant Growth, Electricity Generation, and Spatial Microbial Community Diversity

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