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With the current demands in alternative methods of energy production and increased utilization of existing energy sources, microbial fuel cells have become an important field of research. In a microbial fuel cell, organic and inorganic compounds can be oxidized by microbial catabolism at the anode to generate direct electricity. A kind of microbial fuel cell (MFC) is sediment microbial fuel cell (SMFC) consists of an anode electrode embedded in the anaerobic sediment and a cathode electrode suspended in the overlying aerobic water. microorganisms produce electrons by oxidation of organic or inorganic compounds in the sediment at anode electrode, while oxygen is reduced in the water by...