The Supergen5 Biological Fuel Cells Consortium

Supergen5 生物燃料电池联盟

• 批准号: EP/D047943/1
• 负责人: Fraser Armstrong
• 金额: $ 257.99万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FD047943%2F1
• 关键词: Supergen5; Biological; Fuel; Cells; Consortium

A consortium of teams from 6 universities aims to achieve major advances in a technology that potentially produces electricity directly from sustainable biological materials and air, in devices known as biological fuel cells. These devices are of two main types: in microbial fuel cells micro-organisms convert organic materials into fuels that can be oxidised in electrochemical cells, and in enzymatic fuel cells electricity is produced as a result of the action of an enzyme (a biological catalyst). Fuels that can be used include (1) pure biochemicals such as glucose, (2) hydrogen gas and (3) organic chemicals present in waste water.The Consortium programme involves a unique combination of microbiology, enzymology, electrochemistry, materials science and computational modelling. Key challenges that the Consortium will face include modelling and understanding the interaction of an electrochemical cell and a population of micro-organisms, attaching and optimising appropriate enzymes, developing and studying synthetic assemblies that contain the active site of a natural enzyme, optimising electrode materials for this application, and designing, building and testing novel biological fuel cells.A Biofuel Cells Industrial Club is to be formed, with industrial partners active in water management, porous materials, microbiology, biological catalysis and fuel cell technology. The programme and its outcomes will be significant steps towards producing electricity from materials and techniques originating in the life sciences. The technology is likely to be perceived as greener than use of solely chemical and engineering approaches, and there is considerable potential for spin off in changed technologies (e.g. cost reductions, reduction in the need for precious metals, biological catalysts for production of hydrogen by electrolysis).

来自6所大学的团队组成的联盟旨在实现一项技术的重大进展，该技术可能直接从可持续的生物材料和空气中产生电力，称为生物燃料电池。这些装置主要有两种类型：在微生物燃料电池中，微生物将有机材料转化为可以在电化学电池中氧化的燃料，而在酶燃料电池中，由于酶（生物催化剂）的作用而产生电力。可使用的燃料包括（1）葡萄糖等纯生物化学品，（2）氢气和（3）废水中存在的有机化学品。该联盟计划涉及微生物学、酶学、电化学、材料科学和计算建模的独特组合。该联盟将面临的主要挑战包括建模和理解电化学电池与微生物群体的相互作用，附着和优化适当的酶，开发和研究含有天然酶活性位点的合成组件，优化该应用的电极材料，以及设计，建造和测试新型生物燃料电池。与活跃在水管理、多孔材料、微生物学、生物催化和燃料电池技术领域的工业合作伙伴合作。该方案及其成果将是利用源自生命科学的材料和技术生产电力的重要步骤。人们可能会认为，这种技术比单纯使用化学和工程方法更环保，而且在技术变革方面有相当大的附带利益潜力（例如，降低成本、减少对贵金属的需求、利用生物催化剂通过电解生产氢气）。

项目成果

Metabolic composition of anode community predicts electrical power in microbial fuel cells

阳极群落的代谢组成预测微生物燃料电池的电力

• DOI: 10.1101/002337
• 发表时间: 2014
• 作者: Gruning A

Controlling for peak power extraction from microbial fuel cells can increase stack voltage and avoid cell reversal

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.06.059
• 发表时间: 2014-12
• 期刊: Journal of Power Sources
• 影响因子: 9.2
• 作者: H. Boghani;G. Papaharalabos;I. Michie;K. Fradler;R. Dinsdale;A. Guwy;I. Ieropoulos;J. Greenman;G. Premier

Processing of strong and highly conductive carbon foams as electrode

• DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.05.022
• 发表时间: 2011-10-01
• 期刊: CARBON
• 影响因子: 10.9
• 作者: Amini, Negar;Aguey-Zinsou, Kondo-Francois;Guo, Zheng-Xiao
• 通讯作者: Guo, Zheng-Xiao