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Boosting power generation by sediment microbial fuel cell in oil-contaminated sediment amended with gasoline/kerosene / Elizabeth Aleman-Gama ; Alan J. Cornejo-Martell ; Sathish Kumar Kamaraj ; Katy Juárez ; Susana Silva-Martínez ; Alberto Alvarez-Gallegos 1
ABSTRACT 1
1. Introduction 1
2. Materials and Methods 3
2.1. Sampling and substrate 3
2.2. SMFC electrodes 3
2.3. SMFC design 4
2.4. Calculations, data acquisition and electrochemical analysis 4
2.5. Microbial identification 5
3. Results and Discussion 5
3.1. Power generation from the initial OCS 5
3.2. Power generation from the OCS amended with gasoline 5
3.3. Power generation from kerosene-amended OCS 7
3.4. Analysis of the composition of the microbial communities (initial sediment, anode biofilm and anodic sediment) 8
4. Conclusions 11
References 11