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Compost Soil Microbial Fuel Cell to Generate Power using Urea as Fuel.


ABSTRACT: The acute problem of eutrophication increasing in the environment is due to the increase of industrial wastewater, synthetic nitrogen, urine, and urea. This pollutes groundwater, soil and creates a danger to aquatic life. Therefore, it is advantageous to use these waste materials in the form of urea as fuel to generate power using Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC). In this work, we studied the compost soil MFC(CSMFC) unlike typical MFC with urea from the compost as fuel and graphite as a functional electrode. The electrochemical techniques such as Cyclic Voltammetry, Chronoamperometry are used to characterise CSMFC. It is observed that the CSMFC in which the compost consists of urea concertation of 0.5?g/ml produces maximum power. Moreover, IV measurement is carried out using polarization curves in order to study its sustainability and scalability. Bacterial studies were also playing a significant role in power generation. The sustainability study revealed that urea is consumed in CSMFC to generate power. This study confirmed that urea has a profound effect on the power generation from the CSMFC. Our focus is to get power from the soil processes in future by using waste like urine, industrial wastewater, which contains much amount of urea.

SUBMITTER: Magotra VK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7058052 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Compost Soil Microbial Fuel Cell to Generate Power using Urea as Fuel.

Magotra Verjesh Kumar VK   Kumar Sunil S   Kang T W TW   Inamdar Akbar I AI   Aqueel Abu Talha AT   Im Hyunsik H   Ghodake Gajanan G   Shinde Surendra S   Waghmode D P DP   Jeon H C HC  

Scientific reports 20200305 1


The acute problem of eutrophication increasing in the environment is due to the increase of industrial wastewater, synthetic nitrogen, urine, and urea. This pollutes groundwater, soil and creates a danger to aquatic life. Therefore, it is advantageous to use these waste materials in the form of urea as fuel to generate power using Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC). In this work, we studied the compost soil MFC(CSMFC) unlike typical MFC with urea from the compost as fuel and graphite as a functional elec  ...[more]

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