This book highlights current efforts and research (in Malaysia) on Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) approach as a core technique for sludge treatment and energy recovery. It also includes health and socioeconomic perspectives used in this approach. The book begins with an overview of sludge in waste treatment plants and the efficient generation of renewable energy through dewatered sludge bioconversion via MFC. It presents the use of Electrogenic Bacteria (EB) for accelerating the hydrolysis treatment of sludge and the determination of metabolites produced in the process. The book highlights new achievements in the purification of sludge through rubber band technology and further treatment. It discusses the recovery of beneficial biodegradable polymer compounds that are added value for the plastic industry and presents safety issues of sludge on human health. Further, it presents a case study on the MFC project for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education, and includes the economic perspective of innovation in energy. The book ends with various ways forward toward improving renewable energy production and clean waste treatment.

Chapter 1: Overview of Biosolid in Waste Treatment Plant.- Chapter 2: An Insight of Component and Typical Mechanism of Sludge Degrader Microbes in Dewatered Sludge.- Chapter 3: Microbial fuel cell as Advance technology for sludge treatment.- Chapter 4: Assessment of MFC-based sludge performance via Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS).- Chapter 5: Utilization of Electrogenic bacteria (EB) consortium for sludge treatment via organic compound degradation.- Chapter 6: Sludge Particle Surface Interactions: Technology and Purification Approaches.- Chapter 7: Potential biodegradable product from dewatered sludge.- Chapter 8: Antimicrobial-Resistant Microorganisms and the Possibility of Using Microbial Fuel Cell Technology to Reduce their Transmission in the Environment.- Chapter 9: Effects of treated and untreated sludge applications on human health, the environment and other ecological factors.- Chapter 10: Designing an MFC-ForEnVyEnt for school pupils' awareness, knowledge, affect and participation.- Chapter 11: MFC Innovation in wastewater treatment plant: Economic perspectives.- Chapter 12: Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC) As an Alternative Energy Source: The Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Sustainable and Renewable Energy in Malaysia.- Chapter 13: The way forward.