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Table 18.2 Summary of dominant microbes present in bacterial community of the anode biofilm

Substrates MFC Technique Dominant community members Power density

(mW/m 2 )

Coulombic
efficiency (%)

References

Acetate Two-chamber DGGE Geobacter sulfurreducens N/A (Jung and Regan 2007 )

72

Single-chamber Clone library Pelobacter propionicus (Kiely et al. 2011b )

835 ± 21 20

Single-chamber DGGE Rhodopseudomonas palustris,

Geobacter sulfurreducens,
Pseudomonas alcaligenes

N/A (Xing et al. 2009 )

1797 ± 10

Two-chamber Clone library Thauera aromatica, Geobacter

sulfurreducens

(Chae et al. 2009 )

64.3 72.3

Two-chamber Clone library Geobacter sulfurreducens,

Pelobacter
propionicus

N/A (Chae et al. 2008 )

50

Ethanol Single-chamber Clone library Geobacter sulfurreducens,

Pelobacter
propionicus

(Kiely et al. 2011b )

820 ± 24 11

Two-chamber RFLP Azoarcus sp., Desulfuromonas sp. (Kim et al. 2007a )

40 ± 2 10

Lactate Single-chamber Clone library Pelobacter propionicus,

Desulfuromonas sp.

(Kiely et al. 2011b )

739 ± 32.2 20

Propionate Two-chamber Clone library Bacillus sp. (Chae et al. 2009 )

58 36

Butyrate Two-chamber DGGE Bacillus sp. N/A 46-67 (Freguia et al. 2010 )

Two-chamber Clone library Dechloromonas sp.,

Geobacter sp.

(Chae et al. 2009 )

51.4 43

Formate Two-chamber Clone library Paracoccus sp., Geobacter sp. 3-11 (Kiely et al. 2010 )

10

Two-chamber DGGE Geobacter sp. N/A 5-6 (Ha et al. 2007 )

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