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Development of Efficient Electrode and Design of Microbial Fuel Cell to Generate Electricity from Waste Water

Soumen Panda, Shishir Neupane, Anish Anand, Afthab Ahmed Sheikh

Abstract


The study was focused on the development of composite electrodes and design of Continuous Microbial Fuel Cell to generate electricity from waste water. The electrodes were developed with different combinations of catalysts using phase inversion technique. In MFC Nafion 117 membrane was used as a proton exchange membrane and sewage waste water as substrate for the E.coli bacteria, which decomposes the organic matter and produces electrons. Different combination of electrodes was used in the study to find the best electrode combination. The experiment shows that the best combination of electrodes to be Anode 3-Cathode 3, which gives the maximum voltage of 2040 mV and 1674 mV for continuous and batch operation, respectively. The TOC test was performed for all the combinations to check the percentage reduction of organic matter of waste water. A maximum of 72.32% of organic matter removal was found in the process.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/jrec.v7i1.1115

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