Recent Development of Polymer Based Membranes in Microbial Fuel Cells

EasyChair Preprint no. 6857

Abstract

Since fossil fuels cannot provide the energy needs of the future and that they pollute the water resources that are vital for the survival of living things cause two major problems today; energy scarcity and water pollution. Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) systems, which are a special class of fuel cells, are one of the most studied technologies today, as they provide green energy by treating wastewater and reduce the need for fossil fuels. The efficiency of these devices is highly dependent on the types and the properties of the membranes, which are important components of MFC systems. The most widely used membrane in MFC systems is the Nafion commercial membrane produced by Dupont, which has high efficiency of up to 80 ⁰C. Since Nafion membrane is expensive and has some limitations that will reduce the performance of MFC systems, researchers focused on high efficiency and affordable membrane synthesis, which can be an alternative to Nafion. Polymer materials are the most preferred membrane materials with their reasonable prices and easy workability. In this review article, polymer-based composite, blend, Nafion modified, and bipolar membranes, which have been focused on because it is thought to bring higher efficiency in recent years, have been examined. It has been seen that promising results for the commercialization of MFC systems were obtained in investigated studies.

Keyphrases: Bipolar membrane, Blend membrane, composite membrane, Microbial fuel cell, nafion modified membrane, polymer membrane

@Booklet{EasyChair:6857,
  author = {Sema Tuğçe Baykara},
  title = {Recent Development of Polymer Based Membranes in Microbial Fuel Cells},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 6857},

  year = {EasyChair, 2021}}