Energy

14Fungal Microbial Fuel Cells, an Opportunity for Energy Sources: Current Perspective and Future Challenges

Sudakshina Tiwari¹, Deepali Koreti¹, Anjali Kosre¹, Pramod Kumar Mahish², S.K. Jadhav¹, and Nagendra Kumar Chandrawanshi¹

¹ School of Studies in Biotechnology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur (C.G.), Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India

² Department of Biotechnology, Govt. Digvijay Autonomous P.G. College Rajnandgaon (C.G.), Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India

14.1 Introduction

Recently, fossil fuels are the main energy sources; however, this source is limited and also extensive use of this causes many types of the environmental issues including global warming, pollution and instability of economy and biodiversity, which stimulate the research for alternative resources of energy that overcome this drawback (Khan and Hussain 2017). The production of energy by the current method is not sustainable, causes global warming that directly affects humankind, plants and animals etc. To overcome this global problem, there is a need to search for new, renewable, sustainable and green energy. In the present scenario, various alternative energy sources are available. Among these alternatives, microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are gaining much interest in recent years because they produce renewable energy forms such as bioelectricity, without combustion and wastewater generation (Kaushik and Jadhav 2017; Meshram and Jadhav 2019). MFCs are a hybrid bioelectrochemical system that converts chemical ...