Microbial Fuel Technologies for Renewable Power and Biofuels Production听from Waste Biomass
Bruce E. Logan, Ph.D, NAE
Evan Pugh Professor, the Stan & Flora Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering听Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University,听PA, USA
Friday, December 5, 2014
11:00 AM -12:00 PM (Lecture)
12:00-12:30 PM (Networking)
12:30 PM-1:50 PM (Lunch with faculty from other schools)
Engineering Center ECCR 1B40, CU Boulder
The seminar is being co-hosted by University of Colorado - Boulder, Colorado School of Mines, University听of Colorado - Denver and Colorado State University.
Abstract: The ability of certain microorganisms to transfer electrons outside the cell has created听opportunities for new methods of renewable energy generation based on microbial fuel cells (MFCs)听that can be used to produce electrical power, microbial electrolysis听cells (MECs) for transforming听biologically generated electrical current into transportable fuels such as hydrogen and methane gases,听as well as other devices to desalinate water or capture phosphorus. In this presentation, Dr. Logan will
summarize key findings in the electromicrobiological studies of the exoelectrogenic microorganisms and听communities that produce electrical current, and the electrotrophic and methanogenic communities听that are used to produce hydrogen and methane gases. Recent advances will be highlighted on materials听and architectures that are being developed to make these different types of METs more cost efficient,听which are leading to them becoming commercially viable technologies.
Professor Bruce E. Logan is an Evan Pugh Professor, the Stan & Flora Kappe Professor of Environmental听Engineering, and Director of the Engineering Energy & Environmental Institute at Penn State University.听His current research efforts are in bioenergy production and the development of an energy sustainable听water infrastructure. Dr. Logan has mentored over 110 graduate students and post docs, and is the听author or co-author of over 380 refereed publications (h-index = 91) and several books. He is the听founding Deputy Editor of the new ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters, and a听member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and a fellow of AAAS, the International听Water Association (IWA), the Water Environment Federation (WEF), and听the Association of听Environmental Engineering & Science Professors (AEESP). He received his Ph.D. in 1986 from the University of California, Berkeley.
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