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Chapter 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1756-6.ch009
ABSTRACT
Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC) could generate electrical energy combined with the wastewater treatment
and they can be a promising technological opportunity. This chapter presents an agent-based model
and simulation of MFC comparing it with analytical models, to show that this approach could model
and simulate these problems with more abstraction and with excellent results.
INTRODUCTION
A lot of research has been done with the energy and environment issues. About this subject, the envi-
ronmental damages mitigation and the research for renewable energy solutions are some of the mains
topics. Studies indicate that the bacteria could generate electrical energy combined with the wastewater
treatment, resulting in a promising technological opportunity (Logan, 2008).
In this way, computational modelling and simulation bring tools that could expand the understanding
of systems and processes with economic and time advantages in face to build pilot plants, prototypes and
experimental planning and execution. It is known that just the modelling and the simulation could not
bring all the real aspects and variables. Nevertheless, its uses can offer more confidence to the planning
and development of strategies in order to fulfill experimental tests (Maria, 1997).
Microbial Fuel Cells Using
Agent-Based Simulation:
Review and Basic Modeling
Diogo Ortiz Machado
FURG, Brazil & IFRS, Rio Grande, Brazil
Diana Francisca Adamatti
FURG, Brazil
Eder Mateus Nunes Gonçalves
FURG, Brazil