BioFCThe Biological Fuel Cells consortium is made up of the universities of Surrey, Oxford, Queen Mary London, East Anglia, Glasgow and Glamorgan, each bringing their particular expertise to the problem. The Consortium programme constitutes a major initiative in blue skies research aimed at strategic stepwise development of biofuel cells (BioFCs). Prior to the current worldwide intense activity, biofuel cells had been the subject of a low volume of research for 30 years, 20 years less than the modern effort on conventional fuel cells. It is certainly time to study complete biofuel cells (as opposed to individual electrodes), to quantify the potential at the current state-of-the-art, and to move to realistic wastes rather than pure biochemicals, production of which has an associated energy cost. The SUPERGEN 5 Biological Fuel Cells Consortium is undertaking an ambitious coordinated, integrated, multi-disciplinary, multi-centre programme of research. Some of the Theme 1 Microbial Fuel Cells team, at a meeting in the University of Surrey in Nov 2006, are seen in the photo below. |
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