Biofuel Cells and Energy Generation

Kishor Kumar Sadasivuni, Mithra Geetha

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443216039
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Energy

Biofuel Cells and Energy Generation analyzes the current state-of-the-art and offers solutions to key challenges in developing carbohydrate-based biofuel cell technology. The book provides a critical review of biofuel cell technology, including principles, components, applications, obstacles, and prospects, and assesses the economic, safety, health, and environmental implications. The book focuses on the diversity of biomass resources, the fundamental characteristics of biomass, and the major effects of biomass composition variations on biofuel cell technology. It provides a thorough review of the research literature on approaches for decreasing the detrimental impacts of biomass variability on fuel cells. A comprehensive examination of biofuel cell technology's current state and applications is presented, supported by an explanation of the fundamentals, concepts, mechanisms, characteristics, optimal parameters, analytical characterization techniques, diverse types, all-category materials, catalysts, engineering designs, implantable biofuel cells, applications, and critical criteria. A variety of applications are addressed, including power implanted devices in biomedical applications, biosensors for smart communities, and nanomaterials for biofuel cells, among others. For each application, unresolved issues are identified, and solutions proposed. A one-stop reference with contributions from leading scholars from industry, academia, and government, Biofuel Cells and Energy Generation will be of interest to students, researchers, and industry engineers involved in renewable energy generation and offers valuable decision-making tools for those working on biofuel cell technology. - Critically evaluates a range of biofuel cell applications from energy generation biomedical applications - Presents solutions to the current challenges in biofuel cell research, notably how to improve current and power density output, cell design, and long-life operation - Provides an economic performance assessment, as well as health, safety, and environmental assessments - Explores the use of a diverse range of carbohydrate-based biomass resources - Discusses recent advances and unique biofuel cell nanomaterial techniques, as well as various immobilization methods for incorporating the nanomaterial matrix and performance analysis methodologies - Examines unresolved concerns surrounding industrial scale-up of biofuel cell technology, as well as new hurdles in the sector

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• List of contributors
• Foreword
• Foreword 2
• Chapter 1 Biofuel cells: a novel innovation
• Chapter 2 Advances in biofuel cell research and future prospects
• Chapter 3 Transition metal chalcogenides for application in biofuel cells
• Chapter 4 Fabrication and applications of enzymatic biofuel cells
• Chapter 5 Overview of microbial fuel cell and challenges
• Chapter 6 Optimizing biofuel cell technology through electrocatalysis
• Chapter 7 Miniature biofuel cells and its state of the art
• Chapter 8 Industrial applications of biofuel cells
• Chapter 9 Implantable biofuel cells for biomedical applications: a critical review
• Chapter 10 Biofuel cells and self-powered biosensors for smart communities
• Chapter 11 Biofuel cell technology; economic performance assessment and consideration of coproducts
• Chapter 12 Biofuel cell technology safety, health, and environmental assessment
• Chapter 13 Nanomaterials for biofuels
• Chapter 14 Applications of biofuel cells
• Chapter 15 Biofuel cell design and applications: an overview
• Index