Table 6.
Different dye removal efficiencies and power generation capacities for different MFC configurations.
| Type of Dye in Wastewater | MFC Configuration |
Microbe Sources | Initial Concentration (mg/L) | Color Removal Efficiency (%) |
Electricity Generation | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acid orange 7 | Two equal rectangular Perspex frames | Microbial consortium | 0.06 | -- | 0.31 ± 0.03 W/m3 | [145] |
| Diazo dye C.I. reactive blue 160 (RBu160) | Single-chamber MFC | Proteus hauseri ZMd44 | 450–600 | -- | 197 W/m2 | [146] |
| Methyl orange | Dual-chamber MFC | Anaerobic sludge from Gaobeidian wastewater treatment plant | 10–20 | 73.4 | -- | [147] |
| Congo red | Air-cathode | Mixture of aerobic and anaerobic sludge from Liede municipal wastewater treatment plant | 300 | 90 | 192 mW/m2 | [148] |
| Thionine-based textile dye | Membrane-free air-cathode single-chamber MFCs | Proteus hauseri ZMd44 | 40 | -- | 83.39 ± 0.28 m | [149] |
| Reactive brilliant red X-3B (ABRX3) | Microbial fuel cell coupled constructed wetland (CW-MFC) | Microbial fuel cell coupled constructed wetland (CW-MFC) | 300 | 95.6 | 0.852 | [144] |