Nature Communications (May 2017)

Electricity from methane by reversing methanogenesis

  • Michael J. McAnulty,
  • Venkata G. Poosarla,
  • Kyoung-Yeol Kim,
  • Ricardo Jasso-Chávez,
  • Bruce E. Logan,
  • Thomas K. Wood

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15419
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Microbial fuel cells generate electricity from a variety of sources, however from methane only negligible electrical power has been reported so far. Here the authors convert methane into electricity using a synthetic consortium consisting of an engineered archaeal strain, microorganisms from methane-acclimated sludge, andGeobacter sulfurreducens.