Research Article

Impact of Commercial Sugar as a Substrate in Single-Chamber Microbial Fuel Cells to Improve the Energy Production with Bioremediation of Metals

Table 2

Percentage remediation trends of the toxic metal ion supplemented in the MFC system.

Toxic metalMetal initial conc. (ppm)Intervals (days)Metal final conc. (ppm)Remediation efficiency (%)

Pb2+501032.6334.74
2015.2769.47
275.5089.00

Cd2+501029.9140.18
2015.2769.47
2711.7876.45

Hg2+501023.2253.57
2014.6270.77
275.2889.45